Alexander Salamon Airport

Alexander Salamon Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KAMT FAA LID: AMT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Adams County Airport Authority
Serves	West Union, Ohio
Elevation AMSL	896 ft / 273 m
Coordinates	38°51′05″N 083°33′58″W / 38.85139°N 83.56611°W / 38.85139; -83.56611
Map
AMT Location of airport in Ohio Show map of Ohio AMT AMT (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 05/23 3,558 1,084 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Aircraft operations (year ending 9/7/2021) 1,416 Based aircraft 17
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Alexander Salamon Airport (ICAO: KAMT, FAA LID: AMT) is a public owned public use airport located four nautical miles (8 km) north of the central business district of the city of West Union, in Adams County, Ohio, United States.^[1]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AMT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned AMT to Amata Airport in Amata, South Australia, Australia^[3]). The airport was named after Dr. Alexander Salamon, a refugee from Czechoslovakia who survived the Dachau concentration camp and immigrated to New York after the war. In 1953, he moved with his wife Lilly and daughter Suzanne to Seaman, Ohio, where another daughter Julie was born. Dr. Salamon served as a physician in Seaman and throughout Adams County until his death in 1971, at age 61. He donated the land from the family farm for the Alexander Salamon Airport because of his love and gratitude for the place that became home.