Airport Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT)

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FAA provides all Air Traffic Control services at the YNG. The ATCT is open and staffed 24-hours daily. The tower is 1,283 feet above mean sea level (MSL); 92 feet above ground level (AGL). The control eye-height is approximately 1,275 feet MSL (85 feet AGL). Co-located within the ATCT, radar services to the Airport and the surrounding area is provided 18 hours per day, with Cleveland Air Traffic Control Center providing radar services between midnight and 6:00 a.m. The approach control was commissioned in 1968, with expanded radar service, in the form of a Terminal Radar Service Area, inaugurated in 1979.

The combined Control Tower/Approach Control Air Traffic Facility is staffed with complement of 22 Air Traffic Controllers, three Area Supervisors, one Air Traffic Manager, one Staff Specialist, and one Secretary. The equipment, including a ASR-8 Radar System, two full ILSs, a NDB and a VOR, is maintained by five on-sit FAA Airways Facility Technicians. The FAA radar is scheduled to be upgraded to a ASR-11, and moved to the southwest quadrant of the Airport in the near future The Cleveland Automated Flight Service Station is available to pilots via a remote transmitter/receiver located on the Airport. The personnel stationed at YNG are part of the Northern Ohio Hub of the Great Lakes Region of the FAA.