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Addington Field, also known as Elizabethtown Regional Airport, is a public-use general aviation field four nautical miles west of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. It offers a single long paved runway with an ILS approach, making it a practical stop for cross-country GA and instrument training flights, though pilots should be alert for regular skydiving operations.
Addington Field / Elizabethtown Regional Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Elizabethtown Airport Board, serving general aviation traffic near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky. It handles a mix of single and multi-engine piston traffic, some air taxi movements and a notable proportion of military operations, and is also home to active skydiving operations, giving it a varied and interesting traffic picture for visiting pilots.
The airport lies about four nautical miles west of the central business district of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Approach and departure services in the area are provided by Louisville Approach/Departure on 123.675 MHz.
Addington Field has a single physical runway, 05/23, of asphalt construction, lit for night operations, measuring approximately 5,958 feet in the 05 direction and 5,957 feet in the 23 direction. An ILS approach is available to runway 05.
Air-to-ground and departure services are provided by Louisville Approach/Departure on 123.675 MHz. The field has an AWOS-3 automated weather observation service on 121.025 MHz. Clearance delivery is available on 119.45 MHz, and CTAF/UNICOM operations use 122.8 MHz. An ILS is available for runway 05.
Because parachuting and skydiving operations are conducted regularly at Addington Field, inbound and outbound pilots are advised to be cautious and to monitor all traffic advisories. Jumpers exit aircraft over the field from altitudes between 3,500 and 14,000 feet and are normally seen descending under canopy, returning to earth via a left-hand landing pattern with all left turns flown at 1,000, 600 and 300 feet; the exact pattern entry point is dependent on wind conditions.
The airport is located four nautical miles west of the central business district of Elizabethtown, which serves as a useful landmark for pilots orienting themselves toward the field on approach.
Addington Field opened in 1982 and covers an area of 210 acres. In February 2007 the airport board renamed it Addington Field / Elizabethtown Regional Airport, a name that appears on the airport's own materials, although the FAA's master record continued to list it simply as Addington Field. The airport briefly saw scheduled airline service in the late 1980s: Delta Connection, operated by Comair on behalf of Delta Air Lines, flew commuter services to Cincinnati for about four months in mid-1987, while Piedmont Commuter, operated by Jetstream International on behalf of Piedmont Airlines, flew to Dayton from mid-1987 through early 1988, both cities being major hubs for their respective carriers at the time.
The airport continues to support general aviation, air taxi and a share of military traffic, and as of a recent 12-month reporting period saw around 16,000 aircraft operations, an average of 44 per day, with roughly 73 percent general aviation, 12 percent air taxi and 15 percent military. At that time 56 aircraft were based on the field: 51 single-engine, four multi-engine and one helicopter. Elizabethtown Flying Service, Inc. operates as the field's fixed-base operator, and Skydive Kentucky conducts regular parachuting operations from the airport.
