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Richmond Municipal Airport is a general aviation field six miles southeast of Richmond, Indiana, near the community of Boston in Wayne County, and is owned by the Richmond Board of Aviation Commissioners. It offers two lit hard-surfaced runways and a mix of instrument approach procedures on file, making it a straightforward VFR destination for visiting pilots in east-central Indiana.
Richmond Municipal Airport (KRID) is a publicly owned general aviation airport serving Richmond, Indiana, and lying within Wayne County. It is operated by the Richmond Board of Aviation Commissioners and has historically supported everything from scheduled airline DC-3 services in the late 1940s to today's mix of single-engine, multi-engine and helicopter traffic, making it a useful and historically interesting stop for the simulator pilot exploring general aviation fields in the American Midwest.
The airport sits about six miles southeast of the city of Richmond, near the small community of Boston, Indiana, within Wayne County. It lies in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio's airspace, with Dayton providing approach and departure control services and clearance delivery for the area, and Terre Haute Radio also listed among the field's associated frequencies.
Richmond Municipal has two hard-surfaced, lit runway pairs. The 06/24 pair is recorded at 5,168 ft for runway 06 and 5,468 ft for runway 24, while the 15/33 pair is recorded at 5,282 ft for runway 15 and 5,193 ft for runway 33. There is no ILS at the field. Field elevation is 1,132 ft.
Pilots can expect the following frequencies at Richmond Municipal: Dayton Approach/Departure on 134.45 MHz, Dayton Clearance Delivery on 133.55 MHz, the AWOS-3 automated weather observation on 121.225 MHz, Terre Haute Radio on 110.6 MHz, and CTAF/Unicom on 122.7 MHz. There is no control tower at the field, and traffic is coordinated using the CTAF/Unicom frequency.
The airport lies roughly six miles southeast of the city of Richmond, close to the small settlement of Boston, Indiana, which serves as a useful visual landmark when approaching from the northwest.
Richmond Municipal Airport's first scheduled airline flights began in late 1947, operated with Douglas DC-3s by TWA and Delta. Lake Central Airlines took over these services in 1950-51 before withdrawing from Richmond in 1965. The field has seen at least two notable incidents: on 15 December 1952 a Lake Central DC-3 and a Cessna 170 collided while landing simultaneously on intersecting runways in light snow and fog, destroying the Cessna and killing its pilot, though all nine occupants of the DC-3 escaped injury. On 11 February 2019 a chartered Beech 400 corporate jet overran the runway in snowy conditions with a tailwind, coming to rest after crossing a field and a road; the National Transportation Safety Board found the aircraft had touched down 3,200 feet along the 5,502 ft runway, and that the pilots only discovered after landing that the airport had been closed at the time.
The airport covers 702 acres and functions as a general aviation facility. In the year ending December 2018 it recorded 14,720 aircraft operations, an average of 40 per day, with 97 percent general aviation, 2 percent air taxi and 1 percent military traffic. At that time 40 aircraft were based there, comprising 34 single-engine types, four helicopters and two multi-engine aircraft.