Lynchburg Regional Airport - Preston Glenn Field
Lynchburg Regional Airport - Preston Glenn Field
Lynchburg Regional Airport (IATA: LYH, ICAO: KLYH, FAA LID: LYH), also known as Preston Glenn Field, is a public use airport in Campbell County, Virginia, United States. It is located at the intersection of Route 29 South and Route 460, five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) southwest of the central business district of the City of Lynchburg, which owns the airport. Opened in 1931, it was originally named Preston Glenn Airport in honor of Lt. Preston Glenn, a Lynchburg native who died while serving in World War I as an Army Air Corps pilot. Mostly used for general aviation, the airport is also served by two commercial airlines, American Eagle, flying Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft to Charlotte, and United Express, flying Canadair Regional Jets to Chicago-O'Hare and Washington-Dulles. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service facility. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 83,392 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2018, 86,366 enplanements in 2009, and 93,772 in 2010.
Location
37.327°N, 79.200°O · 286 m s. n. m. (938 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 6 Official publication
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 20 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2020.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
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 · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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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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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Lynchburg Regional Airport - Preston Glenn Field (LYH). Retrieved October 22, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LYH
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Harvard
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BibTeX
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title = {{Lynchburg Regional Airport - Preston Glenn Field (LYH)}},
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urldate = {2026-10-22},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-22}
}Wikipedia
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