Seneca County Airport
airport in Ohio, United States of America
The Seneca County Airport (FAA LID: 16G) is a county-owned public-use airport located 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of the central business district of Tiffin, a city in Seneca County, Ohio, United States.
History
Planning for the airport began in 1944. The airport was originally intended to be a municipal airport for the city of Tiffin. Though an appointed committee decided there was need for an airport, no action was taken until 1954, when a firm was hired to develop a master plan for the airport.
In December 1964, the city approved a plan to buy 240 acres (97 ha) and then lease it to Dwight Knepper to operate. As a previous bond issue had failed, it announced plans for a fundraising effort to pay for the airport with public donations in late February 1965. After a period of dormancy, the fundraising effort was restarted in mid June. By the third week of September, it was discovered that state grants were only available to airports administered at the county level. As a result, plans for a municipal airport were scrapped and replaced by those for a county airport. Initially, a location near Bascom was proposed.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Seneca County Airport” is airport in Ohio, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Seneca, County and Airport, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7450286. Authority coordinates are 41.094, -83.213. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944, 1954, 1964 and 1965.
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This entry incorporates text from “Seneca County Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.