Blue Grass Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Lexington-Fayette County Airport Board | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Lexington, Kentucky | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Fayette County | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 979 ft / 298 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°02′11″N 084°36′21″W / 38.03639°N 84.60583°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bluegrassairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Blue Grass Airport (IATA: LEX, ICAO: KLEX, FAA LID: LEX) is a public airport located in Fayette County, Kentucky, United States, four miles (6 km) west of the central business district of the City of Lexington. The airport covers an area of 911 acres (3.69 km²) and has two runways. It is also home to the Aviation Museum of Kentucky. On April 18, 2007, Blue Grass Airport opened up an extension of Concourse B. The extension added six new boarding gates.
Airlines and destinations
Concourse B
- Continental Airlines Gate B2
- Continental Connection operated by CommutAir (Cleveland) [ends Sept. 3]
- Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
- Northwest Airlines Gate B3
- Northwest Airlink operated by Mesaba Airlines (Memphis)
- Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines (Detroit, Memphis)
- Delta Air Lines Gates B6-B8 (Atlanta)
- Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
- Delta Connection operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)
- Delta Connection operated by Comair (Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New York-LaGuardia, Orlando, Washington-Reagan)
Concourse C
- United Airlines Gate C1
- United Express operated by SkyWest (Chicago-O'Hare)
- US Airways Gate C3
- US Airways Express operated by Air Wisconsin (Charlotte)
- US Airways Express operated by Piedmont Airlines (Charlotte)
- US Airways Express operated by PSA Airlines (Charlotte)
- American Airlines Gate C4
- American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth)
Cargo Service
Future
The airport's Master Plan includes a proposal to build a new crosswind runway, 9-27, which would replace the current 8-26. Additional land would need to be acquired to build the runway, and a possible new general aviation area would be built next to it.[1]
Incidents and accidents
On August 30, 2002, a Lear Jet over-ran Runway 4 on landing, killing one passenger.[2]
Comair Flight 5191
- On August 27, 2006, a CRJ-100ER operated by regional carrier Comair on behalf of Delta Connection (Comair Flight 5191), crashed while attempting to take off from the wrong runway. There were 49 fatalities, with the first officer, James Polehinke, being the only survivor. Polehinke did initial rehablitation at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Center in Lexington, Kentucky before returning to Florida.
Fictional Reference
Blue Grass Field was Auric Goldfinger's flight destination in the James Bond film Goldfinger[3]
References
- Blue Grass Airport (official web site)
- FAA Airport Form 5010 for LEX PDF
- {http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/103631.html/ Kentucky.com airticle on new dining/retail options}
Notes
- ^ "Bluegrass Airport Master Plan Update" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-11-02.
- ^ "NTSB Probable Cause Report NYC02FA177". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 2006-08-27.
- ^ Goldfinger Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or James Bond movie
External links
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective April 18, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KLEX
- ASN accident history for LEX
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KLEX
- FAA current LEX delay information