James M Cox Dayton International Airport

James M Cox Dayton International Airport (KDAY) is a medium airport in Dayton, OH. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KDAY or IATA code DAY. It sits in North America.

James M Cox Dayton International Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 10,901 ft (3,323 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.

James M Cox Dayton International Airport lies at 1,009 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/New_York. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 117 departing and 119 arriving private-jet legs at KDAY across the next six months of operator inventory. 8 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KDAY 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.

Dayton International Airport is 10 miles north of downtown Dayton, in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The airport is in an exclave of the city of Dayton not contiguous with the rest of the city. Its address is 3600 Terminal Drive, Dayton, Ohio 45377. The airport was former headquarters for American Eagle carrier PSA Airlines.