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Blue Grass Airport

Lexington, United States · North America

North America America/New_York

17direct destinations

6airlines

2runways

2,135 mLongest runway

605Aircraft documented

1942opened

Blue Grass Airport (IATA: LEX, ICAO: KLEX, FAA LID: LEX) 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. In 2025, LEX served 1,614,053 passengers, an all-time record for the facility, breaking the old record set in 2024. The 2025 passenger totals was 2.7 percent higher than in 2024. Four major airline carriers serve its passengers: Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines.

Location

38.035°N, 84.607°O · 298 m s. n. m. (979 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States

CityLexington

IATA codeLEX

ICAO codeKLEX

Coordinates38.035°N, 84.607°O

Elevation298 m s. n. m. (979 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/New_York

Runways2

Longest runway2,135 m

Opened1942

Direct destinations17

Official website

Runways · 2

04/22

Length2,135 m7,005 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

09/27

Length1,219 m3,999 ft

Width23 m75 ft

SurfaceConcrete

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 6

Tower

119.100LEXINGTON TWR

Ground

121.900

Clearance delivery

132.350CLNC DEL

ATIS (automatic information)

126.300

Approach

120.150LEXINGTON APP/DEP

UNICOM

122.950UNICOM

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

History

Blue Grass Airport began as a municipal airfield that was developed with the assistance of the Federal Civil Works Administration as part of a state-wide airport development policy in 1933. The town share for construction was $1,362 with a portion of $22,427 spent in Lexington overall.

Blue Grass Airport opened with a star-shaped layout. In World War II it was used by pilots training at Bowman for dead-stick landing practice in preparation for glider assaults.

The original airport logo was designed by a student who attended and graduated from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Jill Reiling Markey (class of 1978) designed the logo in 1976. The current logo is based on Dr. Markey's design. For her efforts, Dr. Markey was awarded the Commission of Kentucky Colonel by then Governor Julian M. Carroll in 1976.

What flies here

From our own logbook: 605 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.

605Aircraft documented

51,798Movements recorded

2006–2025Years on record

Types seen here

Bombardier CRJ260

Embraer E170 / E17585

Boeing 71764

Embraer ERJ 135 / 14555

Airlines with documented aircraft

ExpressJet 133 Endeavor Air 120 PSA Airlines 111 Envoy Air 103 Delta Air Lines 78 SkyWest Airlines 45 Republic Airways 28 ExpressJet Airlines 10

Busiest routes from here

ATLAtlanta2,302 flights CLTCharlotte1,728 flights ORDChicago1,201 flights DTWDetroit293 flights DFWDallas-Fort Worth151 flights CVGCincinnati / Covington62 flights DENDenver7 flights EWRNewark3 flights

A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.

Airlines operating here · 6

Other airlines with direct routes

Allegiant Air American Eagle Delta Connection United Express American Airlines Delta Air Lines

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: PD USGS basemap as extracted by Dual Freq. · Public domain · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Blue Grass Airport (LEX). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LEX

MLA

“Blue Grass Airport (LEX).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LEX. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Blue Grass Airport (LEX).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LEX.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Blue Grass Airport (LEX). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LEX (Accessed: 16 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_lex,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Blue Grass Airport (LEX)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LEX},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LEX}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-16},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}

Wikipedia

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