AF Marathon Spectator Gathering Site
Sept. 20, 2025 • 8:00 am - noon

Downtown Fairborn

The Fly Zone is a place, an event and a way to support our troops. It also, just so happens to be the ideal place (between mile 14 through mile 16) on the 26.2-mile US Air Force Marathon course for friends, family and spectators to see the marathoners. Not once, but the only chance to see them twice! Marathoners enter downtown Fairborn on mile 14 and return on the base at mile 16. The Fairborn Fly Zone is also one way the Miami Valley can support our troops, the Air Force and last but not least the marathon runners.

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At the Fly Zone you will find:

Restaurants  •  Shuttle to and from Start/Finish Line  •  Live Bands  •   Cool Shade

Information about the Air Force Marathon

Three Days of Activities

■    Two Day Sports and Fitness Expo at the Nutter Center
■    Gourmet Pasta Dinner
■    5K Race
■    10K Race
■    Half Marathon
■    Full Marathon
■    FlyZone Festivities at Downtown Fairborn (Hairborn Festival - Friday night; Marathon - Saturday 8-1200; Downtown Car Show, 10:00-5:00

Participation Information

■    10,000+ Runners
■     Runners and their families will participate and attend the weekend activities.
■     Visitors from 376 cities that are more than an hour away and all 50 states and 8 different countries.

Sports & Fitness Expo

■    A partial list of companies that exhibit at the Air Force Marathon Sports and Fitness Expo at the Ervin J. Nutter Center at Wright State University Thursday and Friday include: Boeing, DP&L, New Balance, Northrop Grumman, Starbucks, & TGI Friday’s.
■    25,000 attendees
■    Irvin J. Nutter Center, Wright State University, Fairborn, Ohio