Nothing left but the runway. Pretty sad, grew up about a mile off the end of the runway, used to be very busy with well over a hundred based planes... sigh
We were flying from Huntington to Indiana last week and stopped at Vinton County for the first time since Manyak took care of the place. I used to fly into this airport a lot and was shocked at what I found. There are people, as far as I can tell, actually living at the airport. There's garbage and dirty clothes everywhere and it looks like a clubhouse or something. Part of the ceiling had collapsed. My wife said it was actually frightening to go into what is left of the terminal. And don't even ask about the smell.
Priebe was where I remember flying out of as a kid in the 1980's and early 1990's. Sometime around 2010 the airport was sold to the county sanitation and the landfill is very nearby. However, you can still see remnants of the runway (cut in half with a road dissecting it and in very poor shape) as well as the aircraft tiedowns just west of the former runway. The old prop shop (which operated as an event space prior to being sold) has been torn down, but the hangar that Jim Priebe built in the late 1980's is still in use by the landfill for storing equipment.
We spent some time here in August of 2012 and found the owners of Tailwinds Aviation to be very friendly and hospitable. Services were fairly priced including fuel. The airport is well maintained and I would not hesitate to recommend it for most light aircraft.
41N - Privately owned; public use. 30 x 3000 ft asphalt runway; no fuel or svcs. 4th Annual Musical Fly-In, June 28, 2009! Don't miss it. Lots of planes, lots of flying activity, lots of great people, some food and of course - music. A couple of stages, various entertainers. Want to perform? Bring your instrument(s) or group! Contact in advance if you want an official time on the schedule.
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no after hours restrooms
🔗 Tue, 05 Oct 2021
— @wolfgangx at Union County Airport, United States
doors lock at 5
Good gas stop
🔗 Tue, 22 Jun 2021
— @wolfgangx at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport, United States
Must have been an old military base. Massive runway. ForeFlight said fair condition but I would say it was good
good gas stop
🔗 Sun, 13 Jun 2021
— @wolfgangx at Madison County Airport, United States
TWO avgas pumps!!
poor shape
🔗 Sun, 02 May 2021
— @wolfgangx at Miller Airport, United States
this airport is in poor condition, not sure if its really even open as there were small X's on the runway
(no subject)
🔗 Mon, 19 Apr 2021
— @jeremyc at Gallia Meigs Regional Airport, United States
What a fun approach! Met family there and when the attendant saw kids come into the airport, he gave them all rubber band balsa gliders.
Nice FBO
🔗 Fri, 27 Nov 2020
— @JoeMosher at Sandusky County Regional Airport, United States
Nice pilot lounge and common area. Great building. Nice folks who work there and are very helpful.
re: bad runway
🔗 Wed, 04 Nov 2020
— @david at Kokosing Heliport, United States
Reply to @flopp: Great catch -- thanks! Fixed.
Nice airport Great Service
🔗 Tue, 13 Oct 2020
— @rstan at Defiance Memorial Airport, United States
TAS is the FBO
Great facility
Very accommodating with crew car and great repair facility
Private Security Contractors
🔗 Sun, 13 Sep 2020
— @ZOE at Schaney's Lair Airport, United States
Well maintained, private use, very exclusive discreet and secure. Pay to play and invited guests only.
Great airport
🔗 Tue, 08 Sep 2020
— @wolfgangx at Fayette County Airport, United States
Nice pilot lounge and a good gas stop!
Nice small airport
🔗 Thu, 04 Jun 2020
— @JoeMosher at Middle Bass-East Point Airport, United States
Great island with two resturants and bars. Also campground.
(no subject)
🔗 Sun, 03 Mar 2019
— @JoeMosher at Lima Allen County Airport, United States
Nice FBO and great folks who are extremely helpful
First Grass landing
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— @tshiverd at Troy Skypark Airport, United States
Instructor took me here during training for soft field landings
Flight Test
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— @tshiverd at Bluffton Airport, United States
Took my flight test here with Dottie on President's Day, 2000.
Truck Stop!
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— @tshiverd at Elliotts Landing Airport, United States
Great little grass runway airport. Park next to the semi's at the north end of the runway and walkin to the country diner truck stop. Great food!
Great Airport Destination!
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— @tshiverd at Grimes Field, United States
Love the diner, and the museum, and my wife's air medical "CareFlight" base. the place I fly to the most. Love Urbana Grimes!
Almost gone...
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— @tshiverd at Schaney's Lair Airport, United States
Nothing left but the runway. Pretty sad, grew up about a mile off the end of the runway, used to be very busy with well over a hundred based planes... sigh
First Time visit
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— @tshiverd at Fayette County Airport, United States
Landed here for first time yesterday. Beautiful little airport, picnic area, I'll be back.
Phillipsburg!
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— @tshiverd at Dayton-Phillipsburg Airport, United States
Where I learned to fly and Jane and Jean Miller owned it. Great little airport!
Nice country airport!
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— @tshiverd at Pickaway County Memorial Airport, United States
Landed here for the first time yesterday,
Great Little Airstrip!
🔗 Thu, 30 Nov 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Andy Barnhart Memorial Airport, United States
My Home Airport! Love flying here.
Easy in and out
🔗 Sat, 31 Dec 2016
— @rstan at Sandusky County Regional Airport, United States
Great fuel prices although advertised as self service lineboy helped us
Better get it right
🔗 Sun, 03 Apr 2016
— @Randallksparks at Kelleys Island Land Field, United States
It's kind of short and narrow. The trees on the east end can be a bit unnerving for a low time pilot.
It's an airpot
🔗 Sun, 03 Apr 2016
— Anonymous Flyer at Hardin County Airport, United States
Only did a T&G. I'm just adding airports to my list of airports
is this really an airport
🔗 Wed, 19 Aug 2015
— @WV_flight at Vinton County Airport, United States
We were flying from Huntington to Indiana last week and stopped at Vinton County for the first time since Manyak took care of the place. I used to fly into this airport a lot and was shocked at what I found. There are people, as far as I can tell, actually living at the airport. There's garbage and dirty clothes everywhere and it looks like a clubhouse or something. Part of the ceiling had collapsed. My wife said it was actually frightening to go into what is left of the terminal. And don't even ask about the smell.
Pilots 'n Paws
🔗 Fri, 07 Aug 2015
— @Rosenkavalier at Wadsworth Municipal Airport, United States
This airport is very PnP friendly and can board animals overnight if necessary. Also give fuel discount on PnP flights.
Closed
🔗 Thu, 16 Jul 2015
— @Randallksparks at Griffing Sandusky Airport, United States
Airport is closed. Use KPCW.
Neat location
🔗 Fri, 26 Jun 2015
— @Randallksparks at Wynkoop Airport, United States
One of the nicest all grass facilities I have ever seen. Recently visited for the Waco fly-in.
Nice airport, got my class III here
🔗 Fri, 24 Apr 2015
— @Randallksparks at Delaware Municipal Airport, United States
John Schoettmer M.D. seems nice enough. He conducted my class III. He's also a retired AF F-16 pilot. Over-achiever if you ask me.
re: I think the code is wrong. This is KPOV
🔗 Wed, 22 Apr 2015
— @ptomblin at Portage County Regional Airport, United States
Reply to @Randallksparks: You are correct. Updated.
I think the code is wrong. This is KPOV
🔗 Wed, 22 Apr 2015
— @Randallksparks at Portage County Regional Airport, United States
I landed here last week. It was coded as KPOV.
Pilot
🔗 Tue, 31 Mar 2015
— @Glastar1995 at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport, United States
Day XC
Bad runway
🔗 Thu, 18 Dec 2014
— @flopp at Va Hospital Heliport, United States
The referenced runway 06/24 seems to belong to the 'Semnan New Airport' in Iran, see http://ourairports.com/airports/IR-OI21
The problem is probably the coinciding identifier US-OI21 vs. IR-OI21
bad runway
🔗 Thu, 18 Dec 2014
— @flopp at Kokosing Heliport, United States
The referenced runway 06/24 seems to belong to the 'Gonbad Ghabus Airport' (FAA-Code OI24) in Iran, see http://ourairports.com/airports/IR-OI24
The problem is probably the coinciding identifier OI24 vs. IR-OI24
Ndb
🔗 Sun, 07 Dec 2014
— @Dxnut at Butler Co Regional Airport - Hogan Field, United States
The NDB at Hamilton/Hogan field is no longer working. It has been silent for two years.
Food
🔗 Tue, 16 Sep 2014
— @Pilot_1975 at Carroll County-Tolson Airport, United States
Great restaurant!
Closed
🔗 Tue, 19 Aug 2014
— Anonymous Flyer at Priebe Airport, United States
Priebe was where I remember flying out of as a kid in the 1980's and early 1990's. Sometime around 2010 the airport was sold to the county sanitation and the landfill is very nearby. However, you can still see remnants of the runway (cut in half with a road dissecting it and in very poor shape) as well as the aircraft tiedowns just west of the former runway. The old prop shop (which operated as an event space prior to being sold) has been torn down, but the hangar that Jim Priebe built in the late 1980's is still in use by the landfill for storing equipment.
History
🔗 Thu, 20 Feb 2014
— @Bill35 at Casement Airport, United States
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/OH/Airfields_OH_Cleveland_NE.htm#casement
re: Your marker is off.
🔗 Sat, 24 Aug 2013
— @ptomblin at Griffin-Sloas Airport, United States
You should notify the FAA then, because this site has it the same place the FAA puts it - 41.2667N, 80.76645W
Your marker is off.
🔗 Sat, 24 Aug 2013
— Anonymous Flyer at Griffin-Sloas Airport, United States
It needs to be moved about 2 inches to the right in this image.
re: Not the most friendly airport ever...
🔗 Wed, 20 Feb 2013
— Anonymous Flyer at Weltzien Skypark Airport, United States
Reply to @lauridsd:
BS
Good Eats!
🔗 Tue, 16 Oct 2012
— @greenbaron at Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport, United States
Check out the Skyline Family Restaurant! What a great diner destination!!!
FBO
🔗 Sat, 01 Sep 2012
— @idleopdes at Ashland County Airport, United States
We spent some time here in August of 2012 and found the owners of Tailwinds Aviation to be very friendly and hospitable. Services were fairly priced including fuel. The airport is well maintained and I would not hesitate to recommend it for most light aircraft.
Closed
🔗 Wed, 29 Aug 2012
— @ptomblin at Cincinnati Blue Ash Airport, United States
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120827/NEWS/308270099/?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|News
Nice Place to Stop
🔗 Sat, 21 Jan 2012
— @rstan at Harry Clever Field, United States
Very friendly. Let us use their personal car to get lunch
Easy to and Through
🔗 Mon, 04 Jul 2011
— @Cactus211 at James M Cox Dayton International Airport, United States
Dayton Intl. Airport truly lives up to it's motto: "Easy to and through".
code 45OH
🔗 Wed, 16 Dec 2009
— @rrobledo at Boober Airport, United States
The FAA uses '45OH' for Boober Airport, New Richmond, Ohio
Awesome Airport
🔗 Mon, 27 Jul 2009
— Anonymous Flyer at Toledo Executive Airport, United States
did my first takeoff there! Left Traffic patern
re: Burke
🔗 Thu, 04 Jun 2009
— @david at Burke Lakefront Airport, United States
Reply to @jerryp: Looks like it's close to Progressive Field as well. I might fly in for a baseball game this summer.
Braceville Musical Fly-In June 28, 2009
🔗 Sat, 04 Apr 2009
— Anonymous Flyer at Braceville Airport, United States
41N - Privately owned; public use. 30 x 3000 ft asphalt runway; no fuel or svcs. 4th Annual Musical Fly-In, June 28, 2009! Don't miss it. Lots of planes, lots of flying activity, lots of great people, some food and of course - music. A couple of stages, various entertainers. Want to perform? Bring your instrument(s) or group! Contact in advance if you want an official time on the schedule.
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