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Lansdowne Airport

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Coordinates:41°07′50″N080°37′11″W / 41.13056°N 80.61972°W /41.13056; -80.61972

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Airport in Youngstown, Ohio

Lansdowne Airport

IATA:none
ICAO:none
FAA LID:04G

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Lansdowne Land Associates

Location

Youngstown, Ohio

Time zone

UTC−05:00 (-5)

• Summer (DST)

UTC−04:00 (-4)

Elevation AMSL

1,044 ft / 318 m

Coordinates

41°07′50″N080°37′11″W / 41.13056°N 80.61972°W /41.13056; -80.61972

Interactive map of Lansdowne Airport

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
2/20	3,073	937	Asphalt

Statistics (2021)

Aircraft Movements	1,040
Based Aircraft	4

Lansdowne Airport (FAA LID:04G) is a small, local airport on the East Side ofYoungstown,Ohio,US near thePennsylvania state line. Lansdowne Airport is a privately owned airport, located in an area known as the "Sharon Line" to locals, due to its proximity to a defunct train line that once ran from Youngstown toSharon, right across the state line through theSteel Valleys.

History

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The airport was dedicated as Lansdowne Field in late October 1926. It was named for Lieutenant CommanderZachary Lansdowne, an Ohio native and commander of the US Navyairship USSShenandoah (ZR-1), which crashed inAva, Ohio, in 1925. Rear AdmiralWilliam A. Moffett, then the head of the Navy'sBureau of Aeronautics and champion of airships, was in attendance.^[1]^[2]

Lansdowne Airport was the first airport in Youngstown and was the first in the region to seeairmail service. In 1933, it was the landing point for the Taylor Cub aircraft that held the world endurance record for a light aircraft at the time: 12 hours and 27 minutes.^[3]

Lansdowne was Youngstown's only city-operated airport until 1940. Because of the increasing size in airplanes and the lack of a suitable amount of land in the vicinity of Lansdowne, a decision was made to buildYoungstown Municipal Airport eleven miles away inVienna, Ohio.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft

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The airport has one runway, designated as runway 2/20. It measures 3073 x 50 ft (937 x 15 m). It is paved withasphalt.^[4]

The airport does not have afixed-base operator.^[5]

For the 12-month period ending September 24, 2021, the airport had 1,040 aircraft operations, an average of 20 per week. It included 99%general aviation and 1%military. For the same time period, 4 aircraft were based at the airport, all single engineairplanes.^[4]

Accidents and incidents

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On August 31, 1996, aCessna 177 collided with terrain during anaborted landing at Lansdowne Airport. The pilot reported that the approach was normal but fast and that the aircraft bounced three times on the runway. There was not enough time to land after the third bounce, so he applied power to go around. The pilot tried to keep the nose low to gain speed, but it failed to climb and crashed over a cliff. The probable cause of the accident was found to be the pilot's delay in aborting the landing, and his failure to attain adequate airspeed to fly out of ground effect, which resulted in astall/mush and collision with the ground.^[6]