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Monroe County Airport (KBMG) is a county-owned public-use airfield serving Bloomington, Indiana, lying some four nautical miles southwest of the city centre and offering convenient general aviation access to Indiana University, NSA Crane and the Cook Medical campus. With a long hard-surfaced main runway served by an ILS, it is a capable field for both training traffic and business aviation despite the absence of scheduled airline service.
Monroe County Airport is a county-owned, public-use aerodrome situated four nautical miles southwest of downtown Bloomington, Indiana. It has at various times hosted scheduled airline service, though none operates today, and it now functions primarily as a general aviation and business aviation field. Its proximity to Indiana University, NSA Crane and Cook Medical, together with easy reach of Lake Monroe and the Brown County area, makes it a useful destination for pilots visiting southern Indiana.
The airfield lies close to Bloomington's built-up area, four nautical miles southwest of the city's central business district, in Monroe County, Indiana.
Monroe County Airport has two paved runways. The main runway, 17/35, is 6,508 ft long on the 17 heading and 6,498 ft on the reciprocal 35 heading, hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS serving runway 35. The crosswind runway, 06/24, is 3,487 ft long on 06 and 3,568 ft on 24, also hard-surfaced and lit. Field elevation is 837 ft.
The field is equipped with an instrument landing system serving runway 35, supporting instrument approaches to the main runway.
Monroe County Airport has, at different points in its history, offered scheduled commercial air service, including operations supported by the federal Essential Air Service program. That funding was withdrawn in 1997 owing to the airport's proximity to Indianapolis International Airport, after which scheduled service ceased. The airfield covers a substantial site and by 2022 was recording around 29,484 flight operations annually, averaging 81 movements a day, of which 1,325 were air carrier or air taxi flights. On 17 December 2021 a Piper PA-32 crashed three miles south of the airport, with the pilot killed.
Today Monroe County Airport operates as a general aviation hub for Bloomington, with 108 based aircraft recorded in 2023, comprising 91 single-engine aeroplanes, 10 multi-engine aeroplanes, six jets and one helicopter. The airport promotes itself as a convenient alternative to larger airports for reaching Indiana University, NSA Crane, Cook Medical, Lake Monroe and the Brown County area.
