Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Airport codesCLEKCLECLE is a public airport located nine miles (14 km) southwest of the central business district of Cleveland, a city in Cuyahoga County (Cuyahoga County, Ohio), Ohio, United States. The airport lies just within the city limits of Cleveland and it is the largest airport in the state of Ohio.

The airport was founded in 1925, making it the first municipally (municipality) owned airport in the United States. The airport has been the site of many other airport firsts: the first air traffic control tower, ground to air radio control and the first airfield lighting system (runway), all in 1930, and the first U.S. airport to be directly connected to a local or regional rail transit (rapid transit) system, in 1968. The airport was named after its founder, former city manager William R. Hopkins, on his 82nd birthday in 1951.

The airport handled 11,459,390 passengers in 2007, representing a 1.22% increase over 2006, and 11,106,194 passengers in 2008, down 3.08% from 2007. There were 244,717 operations (takeoffs and landings) in 2007. The airport handles more than 325 daily nonstop flights to over 85 destinations. It is the third largest hub (airline hub) for Continental Airlines and its regional carriers ExpressJet (Continental Express), Chautauqua (Continental Express), and CommutAir (Continental Connection), which operates its second largest hub from the airport. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, along with Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport comprise the Cleveland Airport System operated by the city of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio)s Department of Port Control.

In 2006, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport unveiled a new marketing and branding campaign. The slogan, "CLE Going Places", is said to depict the airports pursuit of improving passengers experience as they upgrade the airport facility and negotiate additional air services.Citation neededdate=February 2008 Improvements include upgrades to the restaurant and store concessions program, taxi service, on-site parking, customer service areas, and the attraction of additional flights to new destinations with the airports new air service development program (begun in 2007).