Blue Ash Airport CLOSED

BLUE ASH, Ohio - The Blue Ash Airport will no longer be the place where little kids fantasize about flying.

Cheryl Popp, Airport Support Network volunteer for the Aircraft, Owners and Pilots Association for Blue Ash Airport, said it was a sad day.

“It's tough,” Popp said. “It's really tough 'cause a lot of futures were made here. A lot of pilots that started here are now flying for the airlines, military. They're repairing aircraft. They're doing everything in aviation and they started right here.”

The writing on the hangar walls memorializes what this airport meant to people like Popp and Jeff Evans of Loveland who came here with his dad. Evans also brought his children here to watch planes land and take off.

“I've never flown in or out of the airport. I've been by it a thousand times,” said Evans. “Still working in the area, so once or twice a week, still come over and watch the planes and the helicopters come in and out and sort of enjoy the day. So, I thought since this is the last day I'd come over and give it one more goodbye.”

Cheryl said she had to resign because she no longer has an airport for which to advocate.

“The friendships and the camaraderie at an airport,” Popp said. “It's like nothing else because literally your life is in your - not in your hands but - something you've enjoyed is shared with a lot of people."

A 130-acre park is planned at the airport site. The city of Blue Ash recently selected a local firm, MSA Architects, to design phase one of the park.