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Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport (KMGY) is a busy general aviation field south of Dayton, Ohio, serving as the reliever airport for Dayton International and home to a large population of corporate and personal aircraft. Its single runway is equipped with an ILS, making it a practical and interesting destination for VFR and instrument training flights alike, and it carries a strong link to the region's aviation heritage through the Wright B Flyer museum on the field.
Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport is a public general aviation airport located in Miami Township, Montgomery County (with a small part in Clearcreek Township, Warren County), south of Dayton, Ohio. Owned and operated by the City of Dayton, it functions as the reliever airport for Dayton International Airport and is used mainly by corporate and personal aircraft. For the simulator pilot it offers a straightforward single-runway field with an ILS approach, a resident flying community, and an on-field aviation museum linked to the Wright brothers.
The airport lies about 10 miles south of downtown Dayton, near the suburb of Springboro, positioned east of Interstate 75 at the Austin Boulevard exit. It sits within the wider Dayton terminal area and is served by an approach control frequency, reflecting its position under the airspace associated with Dayton International Airport.
The airport has one physical runway, 02/20, an asphalt strip. Runway 02 is 4,992 ft long and lit; the reciprocal, Runway 20, is 4,385 ft long, lit, and equipped with an ILS.
Approach control can be reached on 118.85 MHz, with departure on 126.5 MHz and clearance delivery available separately. The automated weather observation (ASOS) broadcasts on 118.375 MHz. A common traffic advisory/UNICOM frequency is available on 122.8 MHz, and a further frequency of 119.4 MHz is listed for the field. There is no control tower at the airport, and Runway 20 offers a partial precision approach comprising a localizer, approach lighting system (MALS), medium intensity runway lighting (MIRL) and a visual approach slope indicator (VASI).
As an uncontrolled field, arriving traffic should make blind calls on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency to announce position and intentions, and coordinate with any other traffic in the pattern. No tower-directed circuit procedures apply, so standard non-towered airport etiquette should be used when joining and flying the pattern for Runway 02/20.
The airport is readily identified from the air by its position just east of Interstate 75 near the Austin Boulevard interchange, south of Dayton and close to the suburb of Springboro. The replica Wright brothers' Huffman Prairie hangar and museum building on the airport grounds serves as a useful ground reference once established on approach.
The airport was constructed in the early 1950s by the industrialist Charles F. Kettering, with work on the field and its 5,000-foot northeast-southwest runway beginning in early September 1955. Originally known as Montgomery County Airport, it was built to support one of the nation's first corporate flight departments. The City of Dayton purchased the airport on 11 January 1974, and it was renamed Dayton General Airport South later that year following a public naming contest. A federal grant application to fund a VOR/DME installation was unsuccessful in 1974. On 6 December 1995 the airport was renamed Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport to honour Wilbur and Orville Wright and celebrate Dayton's aviation heritage. Commander-Aero, a service centre for Aero Commander aircraft, relocated to the airport from Greene County Airport in 1997, and the airport has since seen investment including a pavement management study in 2009, a 17,000 sq ft hangar built by the Connor Group in 2018, further hangar construction in 2021, and over $1 million in FAA funding in 2022 aimed largely at wildlife hazard mitigation.
Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and remains an active general aviation hub with a fixed-base operator offering fuel, general maintenance, courtesy transportation, a conference room, a crew lounge and snooze rooms. The field has 68 T-hangars and six conventional hangars alongside a maintenance facility and administration building. It is home to Wright B Flyer, Inc., a non-profit organisation that maintains a hangar museum honouring the Wright brothers and operates a growing fleet of Wright Model B reproduction aircraft, housed in a replica of the Wrights' Huffman Prairie hangar; the museum is open to the public during limited hours. The airport also hosts periodic airshows, including a World War II-themed event featuring vintage warbirds such as the B-17, B-24, P-40, B-25 and P-51.
