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Dyersburg Regional Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
338 ft / 103 m

5,698
  
1,737

Elevation
  
103 m

Owner
  
City of Dyersburg

Serves
  
Dyersburg, Tennessee

4/22
  
5,698

1,737
  
Asphalt

Phone
  
+1 731-287-8181

Address
  
315 Airport Rd, Dyersburg, TN 38024, USA

Similar
  
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Dyersburg Regional Airport (ICAO: KDYR, FAA LID: DYR) is a city-owned public use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the central business district of Dyersburg, a city in Dyer County, Tennessee, United States. It was formerly known as Dyersburg Municipal Airport.

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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned DYR by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned DYR to Anadyr Airport in Anadyr, Russia).

Facilities and aircraft

Dyersburg Regional Airport covers an area of 275 acres (111 ha) at an elevation of 338 feet (103 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 4/22 is 5,698 by 100 feet (1,737 x 30 m) and 16/34 is 4,000 by 75 feet.

For the 12-month period ending April 12, 1996, the airport had 19,400 aircraft operations, an average of 53 per day: 94% general aviation and 3% air taxi and 3% military. At that time there were 22 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single-engine and 23% multi-engine.

Incidents

  • Singer Patsy Cline was killed about a half-hour after her private Piper Comanche flew out of the airport on March 5, 1963 when it crashed near Camden, Tennessee while en route to Nashville. Cline's plane had left Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas where she had performed a concert and had stopped in Dyersburg to refuel.
  • References

    Dyersburg Regional Airport Wikipedia