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Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport is a city-owned civil-military field in Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, some five miles south of Springfield. It combines general aviation activity, flight training and maintenance work with the co-located Springfield Air National Guard Base, home to the 178th Wing, and its long main runway reflects decades of military jet operations.
Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport is a joint civil-military airport serving Springfield, Ohio, and is owned by the city of Springfield. It shares its site with the Springfield Air National Guard Base, home to the 178th Wing and other Ohio Air National Guard units, while also functioning as a general aviation field with flight training, maintenance repair stations and business aviation traffic. The airport takes its name from the Beckley family, one of whose members knew the Wright Brothers and photographed their first flights, giving the field a place in early American aviation lore alongside its more recent military and civil roles.
The airport lies in Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, about five miles south of the city of Springfield, which owns and operates the field. Traffic in the area is worked by Dayton Approach/Departure, reflecting the airport's position within the wider Dayton terminal airspace environment.
Springfield-Beckley has two physical runways. The main runway, 06/24, is 8,972 feet long with a hard surface and is lit. The crosswind runway, 15/33, is 5,472 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit. Field elevation is 1,040 feet, and there is no ILS at the airport.
The tower operates on 120.7 MHz, which also serves as the CTAF. Ground control is on 121.7 MHz. Dayton Approach/Departure is available on 118.85 MHz. Weather information is provided by an ASOS on 134.975 MHz and an ATIS on 25.787 MHz. UNICOM is on 122.95 MHz, and the 178th Wing's base operations frequency is 141.7 MHz.
The original Springfield Municipal Airport, sited about four miles southeast of the town, was dedicated during a two-day airshow on 14-15 July 1928. A federal grant of $800,000 approved on 15 June 1943 funded a new airport, initially planned with three 5,500-foot runways extendable to 7,500 feet. After a site-selection process and legal action to appropriate land from protesting landowners, construction of the new Springfield Municipal Airport began on 29 August 1944. The first aircraft landed on 14 May 1946, and the field, though still incomplete, opened later that month. Postwar commercial air service began in early 1948 with TWA flights, though the carrier threatened to withdraw unless a landing light system was installed; delays with that system contributed to TWA ending service in September 1950 due to the route's unprofitability. Lake Central Airlines subsequently served the airport from 1953 to 1955. In August 1952 the Ohio Air National Guard announced it was considering basing the 162nd Fighter Squadron at the airport, contingent on the city purchasing land to extend the runway to 9,500 feet for jet operations; construction of this extension had begun by July 1954, and the unit began moving in during September 1955, becoming operational by month's end. An emergency HF radio facility was installed in February 1965. The airport was renamed Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport on 7 October 1985 in honour of World War I aviator Henry A. Beckley. An adjacent industrial park, Airpark Ohio, opened in September 1994. By 2000 a Learjet maintenance business, Spectra Jet, had established itself at the field, later expanding its apron and certifications. The 178th Fighter Wing lost its F-16 training mission in 2005 under the Base Realignment and Closure Act. The airport received an updated master plan in 2016, built new hangars in 2017, and received federal grants from 2021 onward to rehabilitate runways, add runway lighting and improve access to airport facilities, including funding for an electric charging station and a flight simulator. Further taxiway and lighting upgrades followed in 2022, and new hangars and an expanded aircraft parking ramp opened in 2023. That year the airport was named Ohio Airport of the Year by the Ohio Aviation Association, partly in recognition of strong fuel sales during the early COVID-19 pandemic.
Springfield-Beckley remains a general aviation airport with a fixed-base operator selling fuel and offering services such as hangaring and courtesy cars, alongside amenities including internet access, conference rooms and a crew lounge. It is home to flight training, with instruction available through Clark State Community College, and hosts maintenance repair stations including a Learjet-focused business. The field continues to host the Ohio Air National Guard's 178th Wing and other units at the co-located Springfield Air National Guard Base, together with the adjoining Airpark Ohio industrial park and organisations such as Select-Tech Geo-Spatial and the National Advanced Air Mobility Center of Excellence. The airport also hosts fly-ins and airshows featuring vintage aircraft.