Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport

Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport
IATA: BFR ICAO: KBFR FAA LID: BFR
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Lawrence County BOAC
Serves	Bedford, Indiana
Elevation AMSL	728 ft / 222 m
Coordinates	38°50′24″N 086°26′43″W
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 13/31 4,501 1,372 Concrete 6/24 3,002 942 Concrete
Statistics (2019)
Aircraft operations 5,858 Based aircraft 26
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport (IATA: BFR, ICAO: KBFR, FAA LID: BFR) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Bedford, a city in Lawrence County, Indiana, United States.[1]

The airport is named in honor of Virgil I. Grissom (1926-1967), an Indiana native and U.S. Air Force pilot who was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts.

Facilities and aircraft

Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport covers an area of 145 acres (59 ha) at an elevation of 728 feet (222 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 13/31 is 4,501 by 100 feet (1,372 x 30 m) and 6/24 is 3,089 by 70 feet (942 x 21 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 30, 2007, the airport had 5,110 aircraft operations, an average of 14 per day: 93% general aviation, 4% air taxi and 3% military. At that time there were 35 aircraft based at this airport: 97% single-engine and 3% multi-engine.[1]

See also

• Grissom Aeroplex – public/military airport in Miami and Cass counties, near Peru, Indiana
• List of airports in Indiana

References

1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for BFR PDF, effective 2021-12-31.

External links

• Aerial photo from Indiana Department of Transportation
• FAA Terminal Procedures for BFR, effective January 23, 2025
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for BFR
  • AirNav airport information for BFR
  • ASN accident history for BFR
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for BFR