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
IATA: none ICAO: KDYR FAA LID: DYR
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Dyersburg
Serves	Dyersburg, Tennessee
Elevation AMSL	338 ft / 103 m
Coordinates	35°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 operations 19,400 Based aircraft 22
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

• Singers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed about a half-hour after their private Piper Comanche flew out of the airport on March 5, 1963 when it crashed near Camden, Tennessee while en route to Nashville. Their plane had left Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas where they 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 Form 5010 for DYR 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.

External links

• Aerial photo as of 13 February 1999 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for DYR, effective December 31, 2020

• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for DYR
  • AirNav airport information for KDYR
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures