Centre–Piedmont–Cherokee County Regional Airport
airport in United States of America
Centre–Piedmont–Cherokee County Regional Airport (ICAO: KPYP, FAA LID: PYP) is a public-use airport in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. The airport is located five nautical miles (9 km) south of Centre, Alabama and 10 nautical miles (12 mi; 19 km) north of Piedmont, Alabama. It is owned by the CPCCR Airport Authority and was dedicated on October 14, 2010.
This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of PYP by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code.
Facilities
Centre–Piedmont–Cherokee County Regional Airport covers an area of 308 acres (125 ha) at an elevation of 595 feet (181 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 7/25 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 by 30 m).
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Centre–Piedmont–Cherokee County Regional Airport” as airport in United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q35288990. Authority coordinates are 34.090, -85.610. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2011 and 2015.
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This entry incorporates text from “Centre–Piedmont–Cherokee County Regional Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.