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Toledo Executive Airport (KTDZ), formerly Toledo Municipal Airport and later Metcalf Field, lies seven miles southeast of downtown Toledo in Wood County, Ohio, and today serves as the FAA-designated reliever to Toledo Express Airport. It is a busy general aviation and corporate field with two paved, lit runways, offering an interesting mix of nearly a century of aviation history for the visiting VFR pilot.
Toledo Executive Airport, ICAO KTDZ, is a general aviation and corporate reliever airport at Toledo, Ohio, operated by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority. It supports corporate aviation, premium air freight, law enforcement operations, flight training and privately owned aircraft, and is the FAA's designated reliever to Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport. For a simulator pilot it offers a compact, historically rich field close to a mid-sized US city, with two hard-surfaced runways and straightforward radio procedures.
The airport sits in Wood County, Ohio, about seven miles southeast of downtown Toledo, near the community of Millbury. It lies within the wider Toledo terminal area, with Toledo Approach/Departure providing services on 126.1 MHz for aircraft transiting or approaching the vicinity. Toledo Express Airport (KTOL), the region's primary commercial field, lies to the west across the city.
Toledo Executive has two paired hard-surfaced, lit runways. Runway 14/32 is the longer of the pair, with a declared length of 5,596 ft on runway 14 and 5,470 ft on the reciprocal runway 32. Runway 04/22 is the shorter runway, at 3,695 ft on runway 04 and 3,415 ft on the reciprocal runway 22. Field elevation is 620 ft. There is no ILS approach at the field.
Toledo Approach/Departure works arriving and departing traffic on 126.1 MHz. The airport's automated weather observation (ASOS) is broadcast on 121.575 MHz. Clearance delivery, where required, is on 125.6 MHz. CTAF/UNICOM operations are conducted on 123.05 MHz for self-announced calls and advisory traffic on the ground and in the pattern.
Toledo Executive is a non-towered field, with traffic pattern operations conducted using self-announce procedures on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 123.05 MHz. Specific circuit heights and joining procedures are not detailed in available sources, though the field has a documented history of pattern training activity, including flight training and touch-and-go operations by based light aircraft.
The airport lies roughly seven miles southeast of downtown Toledo in Wood County, near Millbury, and sits close to Lake High School, which was affected by a tornado that passed along the airport's south edge in June 2010. No published visual reporting points are noted in available sources.
The airport traces its origins to June 1927, when the Toledo Airport Committee was formed following public enthusiasm after Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. A subscription drive raised $257,000 from 620 Toledo citizens, and the field opened on 3 June 1928 as The Transcontinental Airport of Toledo, Inc., dedicated before a crowd estimated at 30,000 to 50,000. National Air Transport began mail and passenger flights to Chicago and Cleveland, and by 1931 the carrier's successor, United Airlines, made Toledo a stop on a transcontinental route between San Francisco and New York. The airport struggled through the Great Depression as inadequate construction caused runway deterioration, prompting closure, but Works Progress Administration funding in 1936, matched by the City of Toledo, provided three paved runways. The city purchased the airport, and in 1937 it became a Class One port and reputedly the second-largest airfield east of the Rocky Mountains. Runway buckling forced another closure in 1938, before federal grants funded reconstruction and reopening in 1941. By 1948 it was known as Toledo Municipal Airport, gaining a terminal building and control tower, but the construction of the larger Toledo Express Airport in 1954 rendered it redundant for airline service, and it fell into disuse, hosting fireworks displays and drag racing through the following decade. General aviation and business jet activity revived the field from the late 1960s: Executive Aviation invested in hangars and fuel facilities from 1966, the airport was rededicated in 1967, and Crow Executive Air was founded in 1974. Control passed to the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority in 1975, and the airport was renamed Metcalf Field in 1977 in honour of Tommy Metcalf, Toledo's second commissioner of aviation. In April 2007 a retired FedEx Boeing 727 was landed at the field and donated to Owens Community College for ground training. The airport adopted its current name, Toledo Executive Airport, in 2010, the same year an EF4 tornado passed along its southern edge, affecting neighbouring Lake High School.
Toledo Executive Airport covers 450 acres and continues to serve corporate aviation, air freight, law enforcement and flight training alongside privately owned aircraft. Air America Aviation Services operates as the field's fixed-base operator, offering AvFuel self-serve and full-service fuelling in partnership with Glass City Aviation Services, along with aircraft storage and tie-down facilities. Blue Horizons Flying Club and EAA Chapter 582 both operate from the field. As of 2021 the airport recorded around 90,700 annual aircraft operations, split roughly 78 percent general aviation and 22 percent air taxi, with 44 based aircraft comprising mostly single and multi-engine piston types alongside a jet and a glider.