KCGF is the ICAO code for Cuyahoga County Airport (IATA CGF), located in Cleveland, OH.
Cuyahoga County Airport (KCGF) is a medium airport in Cleveland, OH. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KCGF or IATA code CGF. It sits in North America.
Cuyahoga County Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 5,502-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.
The longest runway measures 5,502 ft (1,677 m), a midsize and super-midsize-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Citation Longitude, Challenger 350, and Gulfstream G280. In practice this comfortable for most midsize and super-mid charter equipment.
Cuyahoga County Airport sits near sea level at 879 ft.
Local operations run on America/New_York. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.
SkyAccess currently tracks 50 departing and 125 arriving private-jet legs at KCGF across the next six months of operator inventory. 14 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KCGF are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.
Cuyahoga County Airport, also known as Robert D. Shea Field, is a public use airport in northeastern Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by Cuyahoga County since 1946, it also serves Lake County and Geauga County. The airport is located 10 nautical miles east of downtown Cleveland and sits on the border of three cities: Highland Heights, Richmond Heights and Willoughby Hills. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation reliever airport for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
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