Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (KFFO) is a medium airport in Dayton, OH. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KFFO or IATA code FFO. It sits in North America.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 12,600-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 12,600 ft (3,840 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.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base sits near sea level at 823 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 inventory for KFFO updates continuously as operators publish new empty legs and one-way repositioning trips. Pricing on each leg is available with a free account, and an inventory alert will email you the moment a leg appears on the route you care about.

Regional fields like KFFO 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.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene and Montgomery counties. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wright Field and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot. Patterson Field is about 16 kilometres (10 mi) northeast of Dayton; Wright Field is about 8.0 kilometres (5 mi) northeast of Dayton.