LYH

Lynchburg Regional Airport - Preston Glenn Field

ICAO KLYH37.3267°N 79.2004°W938 ft / 286 mMedium airport
On the map

Lynchburg Regional Airport - Preston Glenn Field (IATA: LYH, ICAO: KLYH) is a medium airport in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. It opened in Aug 1937. It has 2 runways; the longest is 7,100 ft (2,164 m). In 2025 it handled 144 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1937–1937
AUG 1937
OpenedLynchburg Regional Airport - Preston Glenn Field opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Lynchburg Regional Airport
04/22028° / 208° · LIT
LENGTH7,100 ft2,164 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
17/35161° / 341° · LIT
LENGTH3,386 ft1,032 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
152K
152K
164K
165K
185K
89K
140K
153K
148K
163K
144K
1516171819202122232425

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsUnited Express 2American Eagle 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LYH. From the Wikipedia article “Lynchburg Regional Airport” (revision of 17 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers144K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,675of 3,974 · #375 North America · #248 USLongest runway7,100 ft2,164 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,396of 29,823 · =774 North America · =582 USElevation938 ft286 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#18,754of 43,341 · #8,491 North America · #6,851 USAgeOpened 19372026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=703of 15,079 · =141 North America · =123 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

7 channels
A/DROANOKE APP/DEP125.470
ATISATIS119.800
CTAFCTAF127.650
GNDGND121.900
RDOLEESBURG RDO109.200
TWRTWR127.650
UNICUNICOM122.950