Landing essentials
Whether you can land, whether you can refuel, and how customs works here.
Overview
Harry Clever Field (KPHD) is a non-towered public airport in New Philadelphia, Ohio, handling low business aviation volume. Customs is not available onsite; the nearest customs facility is KCAK, about 27 nm away.
Harry Clever Field has two paved and unpaved runways. The longest, 15/33, is 3,951 ft long and 100 ft wide, with an asphalt surface.
Runway geometry from published threshold coordinates. Not for navigation.
Runways are listed longest first.
Source: FAA Form 5010.
Harry Clever Field has Jet A and 100LL available on the field. Fueling is available from 7:30am to 5pm, daily, and the airport has no control tower.
Source: FAA Form 5010 / NASR.
Harry Clever Field does not clear customs. The nearest port of entry is Akron-Canton Regional (KCAK), 27 NM away.
Source: CBP list of ports of entry.
Harry Clever Field recorded 129 business aviation movements in 2025. Traffic peaks in July. Business aviation traffic at KPHD peaks in July, according to 2025 FAA TFMSC data, with lighter activity in February and October.
Business jet movements, FAA TFMSC count. Peak month July, 23 movements in 2025.
Source: FAA TFMSC, business jet movements, 2025.
Harry Clever Field averages 4.9 days above 90°F in July and 25.6 freeze days in January. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 83.8°F, and January the coldest, at 36.9°F.
Weather station is on the field. Some values are estimated by the agency. 1991–2020 climate normals.
Source: NOAA NCEI.
Harry Clever Field has published operating constraints in three categories: access, runway notes and other notes.
Taxiway A is closed when aircraft are on approach or departure, due to a surface marking conflict.
For clearance delivery, contact Cleveland Approach; when Approach is closed, contact Cleveland ARTCC.
Runway edge identifier lights (REIL) for runways 15 and 33, and medium intensity runway lights (MIRL) for runway 15/33, are pilot-activated on frequency 123.3. PAPI lights for runways 15 and 33 operate continuously.
A 15-foot road lies 0-200 feet from the runway, 7-115 feet to the right. A 7-foot fence lies 0-200 feet from the runway, spanning 15 feet left to 90 feet right. A 16-foot building lies 168 feet from the runway, 237 feet to the left.
Trees 18 to 25 feet tall lie 0-100 feet from the runway, 230 feet to the left.
Runway markings use yellow cones.
The approach slope is 1:1 to the displaced threshold over a 45-foot tree, located 45 feet from the runway and 215 feet to the left.
The PAPI is unusable beyond 5 degrees left of centerline.
Source: FAA Chart Supplement.
Harry Clever Field has five airfields within 25 NM. The closest is Carroll County / Tolson (KTSO), 16.54 NM east.
Source: Skystar calculation from official coordinates.
We arrange catering, fuel and trip support here. Supplier prices reach you unchanged; our coordination fee sits on its own line.
$600.00 catering order at KPHD.
What the kitchen invoices us is what your quote reads.
The $75 minimum applies below $862.50.
Passed on at the exact amount the processor took.
Market practice figures are industry averages, not a specific competitor.
KPHD's primary paved runway, 15/33, is 3,951 feet long and 100 feet wide with an asphalt surface. A secondary turf runway, 12/30, measures 1,907 feet by 70 feet and is not paved.
Harry Clever Field stocks both 100LL and Jet A fuel. The field is attended Monday through Friday, 0730 to 1700 local, outside of which fuel service is not staffed.
KPHD does not have customs onsite. The nearest customs-equipped airport is KCAK, located approximately 26.73 nm away, and inbound flights requiring clearance should plan accordingly.