Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport is a city-owned, joint civil-military, public-use airport

Airport

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 located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Mansfield

Mansfield, Ohio

Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland County. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately southwest of Cleveland and northeast of Columbus....

, a city in Richland County

Richland County, Ohio

Richland County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 124,475. It is included in the Mansfield, Ohio, Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Mansfield–Bucyrus Combined Statistical Area....

, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

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Airport facilities and aircraft utilization

Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport covers an area of 2340 acres (947 ha) which contains two asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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s: 14/32 measuring 9,000 x 150 ft (2,744 x 46 m) and 5/23 measuring 6,795 x 150 ft (2,071 x 46 m). It also has one helipad

Helipad

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 with a 24 x 24 ft (7 x 7 m) asphalt surface.

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 33,191 aircraft operations, an average of 90 per day: 77% general aviation

General aviation

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, 14% air taxi

Air taxi

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, 9% military and <1% scheduled commercial. There are 80 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 4% jet and 10% military.

Military facilities

The airport is also home to the Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base

Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base

Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base is the home base of the Ohio Air National Guard 179th Airlift Wing.-Overview:The 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard occupies two separate portions of land totaling 67 acres of leased land on the Mansfield Lahm Airport...

and the 179th Airlift Wing

179th Airlift Wing

The United States Air Force's 179th Airlift Wing is a military airlift organization assigned to the Ohio Air National Guard and located at Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport, Ohio...

 (179 AW), an Ohio Air National Guard

Ohio Air National Guard

The Ohio Air National Guard is a part of the United States National Guard and an Air Reserve Component of the United States Air Force. It is composed of approximately 5,000 airmen and officers assigned to four flying wings and eight non-flying support units. OHANG units are based in Columbus,...

 unit operationally-gained by the Air Mobility Command

Air Mobility Command

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 (AMC). The unit consists of approximately 1000 personnel, of which approximately 300 are full-time Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) and Air Reserve Technician (ART) personnel and the remaining 760 are traditional part-time air national guardsmen. The wing has been active at Mansfield Lahm since its establishment in 1948, originally operating a variety of fighter aircraft until 1976 when it transitioned to an airlift mission with C-130 Hercules

C-130 Hercules

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed, now Lockheed Martin. Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medical evacuation, and cargo transport...

 aircraft. The wing has performed service during Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Retiring their C-130's in 2009 the 179th currently flies the C-27 Spartan \

External links

• Mansfield Lahm Airport at City of Mansfield website