Grimes Field

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Grimes Field
IATA: noneICAO: noneFAA LID: I74
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Urbana
Serves Urbana, Ohio
Elevation AMSL 1,068 ft / 326 m
Coordinates 40°07′57″N 083°45′13″W / 40.13250°N 83.75361°W / 40.13250; -83.75361
Website www.GrimesField.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
2/20 4,400 1,341 Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations 23,480
Based aircraft 36
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Grimes Field (FAA LID: I74) is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the central business district of Urbana, a city in Champaign County, Ohio, United States.[1] Named for Warren G. Grimes, it is also known as Urbana Municipal Airport and it serves general aviation traffic.[2]

The airport is home to the Champaign Aviation Museum.[3] It also houses a project to rebuild a World War II era B-17 Medium Bomber called the Champaign Lady. The B-17 Project website shows the progress and has a live web camera in the hangar where the aircraft is stored. Volunteers work on it Monday through Saturday.[4]

Facilities and aircraft

Grimes Field covers an area of 329 acres (133 ha) at an elevation of 1,068 feet (326 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,400 by 100 feet (1,341 x 30 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 7, 2007, the airport had 23,480 aircraft operations, an average of 64 per day: 96% general aviation, 2% military and 2% air taxi, At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 72% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, 6% helicopter and 11% ultralight.[1]

Events

Grimes Field is host airport to the Mid-Eastern Regional Fly In (MERFI) every September 10th and 11th.Planes from all over Ohio and Some parts of the nation fly in.Usually there is a WW2 bomber present.Some years it is a B-17 some years it is a B-25.The Official site for MERFI is http://www.merfi.com/ .

Grimes Field is a component of the National Aviation Heritage Area.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 FAA Airport Master Record for I74 (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
  2. History of Warren Grimes and Grimes Field
  3. Champaign Aviation Museum
  4. B-17 Project
  5. "Home of the Wright Brothers". National Aviation Heritage Area. Retrieved 16 March 2012. 

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