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Pike County Airport (KEOP) is a small general aviation field three miles northeast of Waverly, Ohio, built through a state-wide effort to give every Ohio county its own airport. It offers a single lit asphalt runway and a quiet, uncontrolled traffic environment typical of rural Ohio GA fields, making it a straightforward VFR destination for light aircraft.
Pike County Airport lies just outside Waverly, a village in Pike County, Ohio, and is owned by the Pike County Airport Authority. It is a modest general aviation facility with a single paved runway, no instrument landing system, and a handful of based aircraft, giving it the character of a classic small-town American airfield. For a simulator pilot it offers an uncomplicated approach into rolling southern Ohio countryside, with a straightforward layout and no complex airspace to negotiate.
The airport sits three miles northeast of Waverly in Pike County, Ohio, at coordinates 39.167 N, -82.9283 W and an elevation of 659 feet. No specific controlled airspace or nearby Class B/C/D shelf is described in the available sources, consistent with its status as an uncontrolled rural general aviation field.
The airport has one physical runway, 07/25, measuring 4,854 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS or other instrument approach equipment installed.
Traffic at Pike County Airport uses the common CTAF/UNICOM frequency 122.8 MHz, with no on-field air traffic control tower. Indianapolis Center provides overlying radar service on 127.1 MHz. The airport has no ILS.
The push to build an airport in Pike County began in January 1966 with the formation of a county airport authority, part of a broader Ohio initiative championed by Governor James Rhodes, who believed every county in the state should have its own airfield. After an initial industrial-park site was considered and then abandoned, a location three miles north of Waverly was settled on by late 1966, though the land purchase was contested in a lawsuit filed in February 1967. The Murray Construction Company was contracted in June 1967 to build a 3,500-foot runway, and although paving was not complete by February 1968, aircraft had already begun using the strip. A 1968 proposal to share a Ross County state grant would have extended the runway to between 4,500 and 5,000 feet. The airport was formally dedicated on 19 October 1969. Just weeks after opening, on 13 August 1969, a Beechcraft Baron crashed and burned while landing in fog, injuring its three occupants. Growth continued through the following decades: a state grant in 1989 funded a 700-foot runway extension, followed by a grant the next year to install runway lighting, and a new administration building was nearly complete by September 1995. A further extension effort, aiming for a 5,400-foot runway, began in 1997. On 4 August 1996 a Cessna 150 crashed into trees in fog while attempting to land, though the pilot survived.
The airport covers 70 acres and remains a general aviation field with a small resident fleet. In the year ending 31 August 2023 it recorded 2,112 aircraft operations, averaging around 40 per week and almost entirely general aviation traffic, with ten aircraft based on the field, nine single-engine and one multi-engine.
