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Indianapolis Executive Airport (KTYQ) is a busy general aviation reliever field five miles north of Zionsville, Indiana, in Boone County, roughly 14 miles northwest of downtown Indianapolis. Owned by the Hamilton County Airport Authority, it offers a single long, hard-surfaced runway with an ILS approach and serves as a base for corporate, training and general aviation traffic in the northern Indianapolis metro area.
Indianapolis Executive Airport, known locally as Indy Exec, is a publicly owned general aviation airport serving the northern Indianapolis metropolitan area. Owned and operated by the Hamilton County Airport Authority, it functions as a reliever airport to Indianapolis International Airport and is described as one of the busiest general aviation fields in the Midwest. For a simulator pilot it offers a long, well-equipped single runway with an ILS approach, a full-service FBO, and a mix of corporate, training and Civil Air Patrol traffic.
The airport lies in Boone County, Indiana, about five miles north of Zionsville and some 14 miles northwest of downtown Indianapolis, placing it within the wider Indianapolis terminal area. It sits close to the growing communities of Carmel, Westfield, Zionsville and Whitestown, and its role as a reliever airport ties its traffic patterns into the broader Indianapolis International Airport (IND) approach and departure environment.
The airport has a single physical runway, 18/36, oriented north-south. Runway 36 is 5,483 feet long and runway 18 is 5,482 feet, both on a hard surface and lit; runway 36 is served by an ILS approach.
Weather is available from an AWOS-3 station on 120.725 MHz. Local traffic advisories use CTAF/UNICOM on 123.05 MHz. Indy Clearance Delivery can be obtained on 118.175 MHz, and Approach/Departure control from Indianapolis Approach is provided on 124.65 MHz when runway 05-23 is active at Indianapolis International, or 127.15 MHz when runway 14-32 is active there. An ILS approach serves runway 36; historically the airport was also equipped with a non-directional beacon (NDB), installed alongside the ILS during earlier runway improvements.
The airport's position just north of Zionsville and within a short distance of Carmel, Westfield and Whitestown provides useful general orientation for pilots inbound from the Indianapolis area, though no specific published visual reporting points are noted.
The airport began life in 1957 as Terry Airport, developed by Campbell Aviation with a 3,340 by 60 foot bituminous north-south runway and a 3,000 by 200 foot turf runway aligned northeast-southwest; it was certified by the State of Indiana in 1958 and originally featured ten T-hangars and an administration building, with 26 more T-hangars added a few years later. Ownership passed from the Campbells to the Van Sickles in 1965. In 1978 the north-south runway, 18-36, was lengthened to 5,160 feet and widened to 75 feet, with three aircraft turnarounds built and High Intensity Runway Lights, VASI-2 visual approach indicators for both runways, and an Instrument Landing System with an accompanying NDB installed. Classification as a reliever airport to Indianapolis International in the 1980s opened the way for FAA and state funding. A 1986 federal grant paid for runway underdrains and land acquisition for approach protection, and grants in 1987 and 1988 funded reconstruction, widening and grooving of the primary runway, raising its strength to 60,000 pounds dual wheel loading, along with an apron and partial parallel taxiway. Further grants in the early 1990s extended the runway to its present length and added further land. In 2003 Hamilton County purchased the airport, with the Hamilton County Airport Authority subsequently receiving grants to reimburse the acquisition; the field was later renamed Indianapolis Executive Airport.
Indy Exec today covers 567 acres and recorded 41,810 aircraft operations in the twelve months to the end of 2019, an average of 115 per day, split roughly 95 percent general aviation and 5 percent air taxi. As of November 2023 it had 99 based aircraft, comprising 68 single-engine, 7 multi-engine, 20 jet and 4 helicopter types. Jet Access Zionsville operates as the airport's full-service fixed-base operator, while Taft Aviation manages the T-hangars; Beck's Hybrids maintains a corporate aviation department on the field, and a flight school also operates from the airport. The Civil Air Patrol's Eagle Composite Squadron was based at the airport until April 2024, when it relocated to a training facility in nearby Carmel.