Airport type Public Serves San Marcos, Texas 8/26 6,330 Phone +1 512-216-6039 | Owner/Operator City of San Marcos Elevation AMSL 597 ft / 182 m Elevation 182 m | |
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Location San Marcos, Caldwell County, Texas, USA Address 1807 Airport Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA | ||
Landing in a cessna 172 at san marcos municipal airport
San Marcos Regional Airport (ICAO: KHYI, FAA LID: HYI) is a public use airport located in Caldwell County, Texas, United States. It is four nautical miles (7 km) east of the central business district of San Marcos, a city that is mostly in Hays County. The airport is owned by the City of San Marcos and operated by Texas Aviation Partners. It is located east of the border of Caldwell County and Hays County. Before it was operated as a civilian airport it was known as Gary Air Force Base.
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- Landing in a cessna 172 at san marcos municipal airport
- Military
- Civilian
- Facilities and aircraft
- References
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned HYI by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
Military
Gary Army Airfield
Civilian
Organized San Marcans fought to save the base, and on November 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced in a speech at his alma mater, Southwest Texas State University, that the abandoned Camp Gary would be the site of a new federal vocational training facility called Job Corps. Today it's known as the Gary Job Corps Center, the largest in the nation.
In 2014, the airport was selected to be the location for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's regional fly-in.
Facilities and aircraft
San Marcos Regional Airport covers an area of 1,393 acres (564 ha) at an elevation of 597 feet (182 m) above mean sea level. It has three asphalt paved runways: 8/26 is 6,330 by 100 feet (1,929 x 30 m), 13/31 is 5,603 by 150 feet (1,708 x 46 m) and 17/35 is 5,213 by 100 feet (1,589 x 30 m).
For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2015, the airport had 46,422 aircraft operations, an average of 127 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% military and <1% air taxi. At that time there were 108 aircraft based at this airport: 76% single-engine, 20% multi-engine and 4% jet.