Dyersburg Regional Airport

Dyersburg Regional Airport (ICAO: KDYR, FAA LID: DYR) is two miles south of Dyersburg, in Dyer County, Tennessee.[2] It was formerly Dyersburg Municipal Airport.[1]

Dyersburg Regional Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Dyersburg
ServesDyersburg, Tennessee
Elevation AMSL338 ft / 103 m
Coordinates35°59′53″N 089°24′24″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
4/22 5,698 1,737 Asphalt
16/34 4,000 1,219 Asphalt
Statistics (1996)
Aircraft operations19,400
Based aircraft22
Sources: Tennessee DOT,[1] FAA[2]

Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is DYR to the FAA[2] and has no IATA code.[3] (IATA assigned DYR to Anadyr Airport in Anadyr, Russia[4]).

In 1957-59 it was served by Southeast Airlines DC-3s, and in 1961-63 by Southern Airlines DC-3s. (In 1962, 134 passengers boarded Southern's DC-3s.)

Facilities

The airport covers 275 acres (111 ha) at an elevation of 338 feet (103 m). It has two asphalt runways: 4/22 is 5,698 by 100 feet (1,737 x 30 m) and 16/34 is 4,000 by 75 feet.[2]

In the year ending April 12, 1996 the airport had 19,400 aircraft operations, average 53 per day: 94% general aviation, 3% air taxi and 3% military. 22 aircraft were then based at this airport: 77% single-engine and 23% multi-engine.[2]

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.[5]

References
  1. "Dyersburg Municipal (DYR)". Airport Directory. Tennessee DOT. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  2. FAA Airport Master Record for DYR (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
  3. "KDYR - Dyersburg, Tennessee". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  4. "DYR / UHMA - Anadyr Airport, Russia". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  5. Jones, M. (1999). Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline. Da Capo Press. p. 287. ISBN 9780306808869. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
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