Wood County Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Bowling Green, in Wood County, Ohio, United States on the campus of Bowling Green State University. It is owned by the Wood County Airport Authority and is also known as Wood County Regional Airport (WCRA). As per the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is classified as a general aviation airport.

History

Bricker Field

The airport was established in 1939, and purchased by Bowling Green State University in 1942 for use in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. On its acquisition it was named Bricker field after Ohio governor John W. Bricker. After the war, traffic at the airport decreased well below capacity. A Lockheed T-33 was added as a Gate guardian between 1965 and 1967. Bricker Field was transferred from the university to the local government in 1970.

Facilities and aircraft

Facilities

Wood County Airport covers an area of 118 acre at an elevation of 673 feet (205 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: runway 10/28 is 4,199 by 75 feet (1,280 x 23 m), and runway 18/36 is 2,628 by 50 feet (801 x 15 m). In 2022, the airport authority received a $157,500 grant to perform an environmental assessment of a runway extension at the airport. The airport ultimately received $1.7 million from the Federal Aviation Administration to build and extend a taxiway. The airport has a fixed-base operator that sells both avgas and jet fuel. It offers services such as catering, hangars, conference rooms, pilot supplies, a crew lounge, and more. The airport has an AWOS IIIP/T in operation. The Bowling Green Flight Center is a 16,800-square-foot aviation education facility at airport run as part of the Bowling Green State University aviation program. It was opened on April 27, 2015.

Aircraft

For the 12-month period ending September 8, 2020, the airport had 32,485 aircraft operations, an average of 89 per day: 99% general aviation, <1% air taxi, and <1% military. This is up from 27,405 movements in 2007. In 2020, there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 40 single-engine and 5 multi-engine airplanes. The university fleet at this airport consisted of 19 aircraft in 2019, all either single or multi engine propeller aircraft.

Accidents and incidents