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Cincinnati Blue Ash Airport (KISZ) was a small general aviation field in Blue Ash, Ohio, about six miles northeast of downtown Cincinnati, that served for decades as a reliever airport to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). The airport closed permanently, and for the simulator pilot it now exists only as a historical destination rather than an active field.
Cincinnati Blue Ash Airport was a compact general aviation reliever field for Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), sited within the city limits of Cincinnati at Blue Ash, Ohio. Owned and operated by the city of Cincinnati from 1946, it was a modest 257-acre non-towered airport that for many years hosted local flying clubs, training and based light aircraft before its closure. For sim pilots it is of interest chiefly as a piece of Cincinnati's aviation history rather than as a field one could fly into today.
The airport lay in Blue Ash, Ohio, roughly six miles northeast of downtown Cincinnati, in the vicinity of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), to which it served as a general aviation reliever.
Blue Ash had a single physical runway, 06/24, of 3,474 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. No instrument landing system was installed.
Blue Ash operated as a non-towered general aviation airport; no specific radio frequency or navaid information is available from the sources consulted.
No published circuit or joining procedure detail is available for this airport.
No published visual reference points are available for this airport.
Cincinnati Blue Ash Airport had been owned and operated by the city of Cincinnati since 1946, functioning as a general aviation reliever airport for Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). After years of declining operations and a lengthy advocacy effort by the general aviation community and AOPA to keep it open, the city of Cincinnati gave the Federal Aviation Administration formal notice of its intent to close the field, and the airport was permanently shut down on August 29, 2012, having stood for some 91 years.
Cincinnati Blue Ash Airport is permanently closed and no longer available for flying operations. Following closure, the roughly 30 aircraft previously based there were relocated to Lebanon-Warren County Airport (I68) and Butler County Airport (KHAO), both within about a twenty-minute drive of the former field, and the airport property was intended to become a recreational park.
