Blue Grass Airport
Blue Grass Airport is a public airport in Fayette County, Kentucky, United States, 6 miles west of downtown Lexington. Located among horse farms and situated directly across from Keeneland Race Course, Blue Grass Airport is the primary airport serving central and eastern Kentucky.- 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.
Aviation Museum of Kentucky
Museum
The Aviation Museum of Kentucky is an aviation museum located at the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Incorporated in 1989, and opened to the public in April, 1995.
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
School
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School is a public high school located on Man o' War Boulevard in the southwest of Lexington, Kentucky, United States. The school was opened in 1990.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colony and Beaumont Park.
Colony
Neighborhood
Colony is a neighborhood in southwestern Lexington, Kentucky, 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.
Beaumont Park
Neighborhood
Beaumont Park is a neighborhood in southwestern Lexington, Kentucky, United States. 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.
Calumet
Neighborhood
Calumet is a neighborhood in northern Lexington, Kentucky, 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
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Fayette, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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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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