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Lebanon-Warren County Airport (I68) is a county-owned public-use airfield three miles northwest of Lebanon, Ohio, serving general aviation traffic in the Cincinnati-Dayton area. It offers a single lit north-south runway and a range of light aircraft, training, and specialist services that make it a busy and varied field for visiting VFR pilots.
Lebanon-Warren County Airport, identified as I68, is a public general aviation airfield in Warren County, Ohio, owned by the Warren County Airport Authority and managed day-to-day by a fixed-base operator. It lies close to Lebanon and within easy reach of the wider Cincinnati-Dayton area, and it sees a substantial amount of light aircraft activity, making it a useful and interesting stop for the visiting sim pilot, with training, charter, skydiving, helicopter and hot-air-balloon operations all based on the field.
The airport is located three miles northwest of the central business district of Lebanon, on Greentree Road, in Warren County, Ohio. It sits within the general Cincinnati-Dayton area of southwestern Ohio, amid the county's rolling countryside near the Great Miami and Little Miami river valleys.
The airfield has one physical runway, 01/19, oriented north-south. It is 4,380 feet long with a hard surface and is lit for night operations.
UNICOM is available on 123.075, which is also used for Pilot Controlled Lighting to activate the runway and taxiway lights. An Automated Weather Observation System broadcasts on 120.550. The field has no ILS; visual approaches with a four-light PAPI and Runway End Identification Lights (REILs) support arriving traffic, and a rotating white-green beacon marks the airport at night.
Displaced thresholds exist at both ends of runway 01/19 to clear obstructions near the runway ends, so pilots should note the reduced usable landing distance when planning approaches. A windsock is positioned near the centre of the runway, between the runway and the parallel taxiway, giving a useful indication of surface wind for arriving and departing traffic.
The airport lies on Greentree Road northwest of Lebanon's town centre, with the parallel taxiway and centrally placed windsock serving as useful references when overflying the field to assess the wind and runway in use.
The airfield traces its origins to a 2,600-foot private airstrip, J. & J. Airport, operated by John Lane and his wife, which was proposed in 1965 as the site for a new county airport following efforts by the Southwest Ohio Regional Airport Authority, formed in 1961, to coordinate airport development across eleven counties. Warren County joined that authority in January 1962, and after the Lane site was shortlisted in 1966 and chosen that July, a 4,000-foot blacktop runway and new terminal building were completed by mid-1967; the airport was formally dedicated on 16 July 1967. A parallel taxiway was added around 1970, though by 1977 the runway pavement had deteriorated and nearby woodland was found to obstruct the approach. Later decades saw repeated efforts to extend and upgrade the runway and taxiways, including a sought 500-foot extension by 1994 and continuing disputes between airport commissioners and the Federal Aviation Administration over funding and obstruction clearance into the 2010s. The field is also home to a replica of the Wright Flyer built for the 100th anniversary of powered flight in 2003.
The airport remains a busy general aviation field, recording around 31,550 aircraft operations a year with roughly 101 based aircraft, the great majority single-engine piston types alongside a handful of multi-engine, jet and helicopter aircraft. A fixed-base operator provides aviation fuel, hangar rental, pilot training, aircraft rental and charter services, and the field also hosts a Warren County Career Center Aerospace Academy programme, a Miami Valley Hospital CareFlight helicopter base and helipad, skydiving operations, helicopter training, rides and photo flights, and hot air ballooning. Three new hangars were added in 2012. Online weather information is available in the terminal building.
