Lakefield Airport KCQA

24/04/2026

Always love when these jets come in and fuel up! Had to beat that weather rolling in.

13/01/2026

We had this beautiful PC24 land this weekend. Glad to see some jet traffic even in these cold months!

11/07/2025

Starting sometime next week crop dusters will be at the airport starting their spraying operations for Mercer County and surrounding areas. Public is always welcome to watch these amazing machines take off from the airport. Please make sure you dont go onto the active airfield while they are operating. A good way to track these planes when they fly is to use ADSBEXCHANGE.COM and when they are in the air you can follow their flights.

14/04/2025

Great information for local operations. Our local Unicom frequency is 122.8 for the Lakefield airport and the surrounding area.

As the weather warms up, many people start to spend their time outdoors which includes operating drones. Air Methods has provided some key points while operating these devices. Check it out!

12/02/2025

We have some changes coming to lakefield airport. In order to support local growing businesses we are upgrading our Jet-A service to include Prist. This will allow us to fuel more jets and turboprops and support pilots who fly in to our airport in the winter time as well as those that require prist year round!

08/02/2025

Just a friendly reminder that most of the lights in the skys at night that are moving are airplanes/helicopters operating at varying altitudes from 2000ft above the ground up to 35000ft above the ground. Aircraft 20-35k feet above the ground can look like a drone and be perceived to be one in the distance. A good way to check and see is to use a tracking application such as ADSBEXCHANGE.COM You can turn on your location tracking and it will give you several rings that show how far away the aircraft are from you. Most of the time you can see plans up to 100 nautical miles in the sky provided they are 20k feet or higher in the sky. Applications such as flightaware and flightradar track some aircraft as well but ARE DELAYED by at least 20 seconds or more in some instances. Also aircraft owners can pay to have their flight not show up on these tracking websites(ADSB excluded as it pulls the raw data) so they may not show up at all. A very good example of this is when celebrities fly in to smaller airports they do not want the general public knowing they are coming in. Several race car drivers that use Eldroa speedway do this to avoid any un needed excitement. While we can't say with 100% accuracy that every light in the night sky is a plane we know it's a very low number with perhaps a handful of them maybe being drones. If there were any big operations in our airspace we would know as even the military sends in NOTAMs of operations that may be happening in the area. If there are any questions on this please feel free to reach out and we will be happy to help put your mind at ease about these sightings.

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28/01/2025

With the increased sightings of "drones" in the area we want to make sure the general public is aware that attempting to shoot down a drone is not only a large safety risk but also can land you with federal charges. In the eyes of the FAA drones are considered aircraft and are to be treated as such. Also there have been several reports of "drones" in areas that when checked against ADSBexchange.com and upon a visual inspection of the area have been found to be a local helicopter pilot.

28/01/2025

Went out to several locations of reported "drones" saw nothing in the area. There were several times SO unit reported a large drone which was actually a local helicopter pilot who was in the area looking for the drones. When I asked him if he saw anything he said "nothing". Not saying there weren't any but I personally did not see anything in the air other than air/rotorcraft.

31/07/2024

If you see a bunch of kids out at the airport today it's because they are doing young eagle flights! Chapter our of Fort Wayne

18/07/2024

Looks like this weekend is shaping up to be a good one with all the Eldora Races happening. You may see some jets and helicopters out at the airport this weekend with the increased race traffic. A reminder that the general public if visiting Lakefield airport needs to stay off of the ramp area where planes can be active.