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Bellefontaine Regional Airport (KEDJ) is a small city-owned general aviation field three miles west of Bellefontaine in Logan County, Ohio, opened in 2002 to replace the older Bellefontaine Municipal Airport. It offers a single hard-surfaced, lit runway and is home to a fixed-base operator and flight school, making it a straightforward VFR destination for light training and touring traffic in west-central Ohio.
Bellefontaine Regional Airport is a publicly owned, public-use general aviation airport serving Bellefontaine, Ohio, and is operated under the auspices of the City of Bellefontaine with Midwest Corporate Air as the on-field fixed-base operator and flight school. It is a modern, purpose-built replacement for the city's older municipal field and today supports light training, touring and business aviation traffic, along with an annual summer airshow, making it an interesting and approachable stop for the simulator pilot exploring general aviation fields in west-central Ohio.
The airport lies about three miles west of the town of Bellefontaine in Logan County, Ohio, and is accessible from State Route 47. Its coordinates are 40.3723, -83.8193, with a field elevation of 1112 feet.
Bellefontaine Regional has a single physical runway, 07/25, of 4989 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS approach at the field.
Pilots can expect Dayton Approach/Departure on 127.65 MHz for arrivals and departures in the surrounding airspace. Weather information is broadcast on the AWOS-3 station at 118.075 MHz. As the field has no control tower, traffic is coordinated on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz.
Bellefontaine Regional is an uncontrolled field, with pilots expected to self-announce and coordinate circuit and runway use on the 122.8 MHz CTAF/UNICOM frequency.
Planning for a replacement for the aging Bellefontaine Municipal Airport (7I7), sited north of the town, began as early as November 1992, driven in part by airport manager Michael Duff, whose site was constrained against further expansion. Following an environmental assessment completed in 1998 and a local ballot question that November on selling previously purchased land, groundbreaking for the new airport took place on 31 July 2000. The new field, now known as Bellefontaine Regional Airport, opened on 8 August 2002 and was dedicated on 16 August that year; according to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, it was only the second new airport to open in Ohio in the preceding 30 years. The older Bellefontaine Municipal Airport, which had itself opened around 1966 as a 4,400-foot paved strip with the subtitle Wissler-Rausenberger Field, continued in limited use until it was formally closed in 2022 once its successor was established. Bellefontaine Regional has since hosted an annual late-summer "Airfest" event, and in 2021 received a $32,000 federal grant to support operations and pandemic-related costs.
The airport covers around 300 acres and is home to Midwest Corporate Air, the field's fixed-base operator, which also operates a flight school on site. Fuel is available, and both tiedowns and hangars are offered for aircraft parking. In the year ending September 2021 the field recorded 8,395 aircraft operations, averaging 23 per day, with 28 aircraft based there including single and multi-engine piston types and one jet. The airport continues to host an annual summer Airfest.
