Lenawee County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Adrian, a city in Lenawee County, Michigan, United States. The airport is accessible by road from Cadmus Road, and is close to US-223. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility. The Lenawee County Airport is the closest airport to Michigan International Speedway, the Irish Hills, and Michigan State University's Hidden Lake Gardens. Siena Heights University, Adrian College, and Jackson Community College Lenawee Campus are also just a few miles away. LCA's arrival and departure process is centrally located between Ann Arbor and Jackson, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio. The airport is staffed between 8am and dusk. The airport is home to a chapter of the Civil Air Patrol, which, besides its duties to the U.S. Air Force, hosts community events for locals interested in aviation.

Facilities and aircraft

Lenawee County Airport covers an area of 248 acre which contains two runways: 05/23 has an asphalt pavement measuring 5,001 x 100 ft. (1,524 x 30 m) and 11/29 has a turf surface measuring 1,810 x 150 ft. (552 x 46 m). The airport received a federal grant in 2021 to rebuild its main runways and taxiways, especially repaving it and widening the turns to allow larger aircraft to use the airport. The runways haven't been redone since 2005. The taxiway's repaving began in the summer of 2021 and was finished mid-fall, while the runway expected to receive work in the spring of 2022. The airport received additional funding in 2022 as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed by President Joe Biden. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 18,000 aircraft operations per year, an average of 49 per day, composed entirely of general aviation. For the same time period, there were 57 aircraft based at the airport: 42 single-engine and 2 multi-engine airplanes, 11 gliders, 1 jet, and 1 helicopter. The airport has a fixed-base operator offering fuel, general maintenance, courtesy transportation, conference rooms, a crew lounge, snooze rooms, and more.

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