South
Kentucky
Fayette

Blue Grass Airport

Blue Grass Airport is a public airport in , United States, 6 miles west of downtown . Located among horse farms and situated directly across from Keeneland Race Course, Blue Grass Airport is the primary airport serving central and eastern Kentucky.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport
  • Also known as: “Blue Grass Airport Park”, “Blue Grass Field”, “KLEX”, and “LEX”
  • Address: KY

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aviation Museum of Kentucky and Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.

Museum
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an aviation museum located at the Blue Grass Airport in . Incorporated in 1989, and opened to the public in April, 1995.

School
is a public high school located at 1600 Man o' War Boulevard on the southwest side of , United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colony and Beaumont Park.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in southwestern , United States. Its boundaries are Parkers Mill Road to the south and east, Versailles Road to the north, and New Circle Road to the west.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in southwestern , . Its boundaries are Parkers Mill Road to the west, Lane Allen Road to the north, Lansill Dr to the east, and New Circle Road to the south.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in northern , United States. Its boundaries are Viley Road to the west, Versailles Road to the south, New Circle Road to the north, and Wolf Run Creek to the east.

Blue Grass Airport

Latitude
38.03471° or 38° 2′ 5″ north
Longitude
-84.6083° or 84° 36′ 30″ west
Elevation
974 feet (297 metres)
Operator
Lexington-Fayette County Airport Board
IATA airport code
LEX
ICAO airport code
KLEX
FAA airport code
LEX
Open location code
86CQ29MR+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 224554402
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
4284904
Wiki­data ID
Q598259
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Blue Grass Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Blue Grass Airport”
  • Chinese: “蓝草机场”
  • Chinese: “藍草機場”
  • Dutch: “Blue Grass Airport”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار بلو جراس”
  • French: “aérodrome de Blue Grass”
  • French: “LEX”
  • German: “Blue Grass Airport”
  • German: “Flughafen Lexington - Blue Grass”
  • Indonesian: “KLEX”
  • Indonesian: “LEX”
  • Japanese: “LEX”
  • Japanese: “ブルーグラス空港”
  • Japanese: “レキシントン空港”
  • Navajo: “Haltsooí Háálį́įdi chidí naatʼaʼí ńdinibįįhígi”
  • Persian: “KLEX”
  • Persian: “LEX”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بلوگرس”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Blue Grass”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Блу Грасс”
  • Turkish: “Blue Grass Airport”
  • Turkish: “Blue Grass Havaalanı”
  • Urdu: “بلیو گراس ہوائی اڈا”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Little Georgetown and Fort Spring.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include KLEX ARFF and Kentucky National Guard Armory.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Blue Grass Airport”. Photo: Dual Freq, Public domain.