Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 544 ft / 166 m 7,802 2,378 Elevation 165 m Owner City of Tyler | Serves Tyler, Texas 4/22 7,802 Code TYR Phone +1 903-531-2343 | |
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Website www.cityoftyler.org/... Address 700 Skyway Blvd, Tyler, TX 75704, USA | ||
Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (IATA: TYR, ICAO: KTYR, FAA LID: TYR) is a city-owned airport three miles west of Tyler, in Smith County, Texas, United States.
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The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a primary commercial service airport. Federal Aviation Administration records show 76,168 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 73,841 in 2009 and 74,357 in 2010.
The airport has been expanding to meet goals in "The Tyler Master Plan"; in August 17, 2002, the airport opened a new terminal building, doubling its space. Tyler is a large center for General Aviation, with three public parking lots for General Aviation arrivals.
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History
see: Pounds Army Airfield for its World War II useThe airport opened in November 1929 as Tyler Municipal Airport. During World War II the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base and renamed Pounds Field after Lieutenant Jack Windham Pounds. At the end of the war the airfield was turned over to local government for civil use and became Tyler Pounds Regional Airport.
Airline flights began in the 1930s. The airfield began showing up on Delta Air Lines timetables by 1936 as part of the Dallas-Atlanta route via Shreveport. During the 1940s and early 1950s this service was by Douglas DC-3. By 1958 Delta had stopped serving Tyler and it was removed from the timetables. In 1936 Braniff offered connections to Tyler on Delta's service, however timetimes show no evidence that Braniff flights ever stopped in Tyler.
Tyler was also served by Trans-Texas Airlines starting in the 1940s as part of a Douglas DC-3 route from Dallas to Beaumont and Houston. This was eventually upgraded to Convair 240 and Convair 600 service, linking Tyler to Dallas and Longview, and showed in timetables through 1974.
The Historic Aviation Memorial Museum (HAMM), a large aviation museum at the airport rented and moved into the old terminal that had been closed since 2002.
Facilities
The airport covers 1,200 acres (486 ha) at an elevation of 544 feet (166 m). It has three asphalt runways: 4/22 is 7,802 by 150 feet (2,378 x 46 m); 13/31 is 5,200 by 150 feet (1,585 x 46 m); 17/35 is 4,832 by 150 feet (1,473 x 46 m).
In the year ending July 31, 2011 the airport had 48,677 aircraft operations, average 133 per day: 83% general aviation, 14% air taxi, 2% airline, and 1% military. 152 aircraft were then based at the airport: 60% single-engine, 22% jet, 16% multi-engine, and 2% helicopter.