Cheyenne County Municipal Airport
airport in Kansas, United States of America
Cheyenne County Municipal Airport (ICAO: KSYF, FAA LID: SYF) is a public airport located one mile (2 km) south of the central business district of St. Francis, a city in Cheyenne County, Kansas, United States. This airport is publicly owned by City of St. Francis.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Cheyenne County Municipal Airport is assigned SYF by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned SYF to Silva Bay on Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada). The airport's ICAO identifier is KSYF.
Facilities and aircraft
Cheyenne County Municipal Airport covers an area of 307 acres (124 ha) which contains two runways:
Runway 14/32: 5,200 X 75 ft (1,585 x 23 m), surface: concrete
Runway 18/36: 2,313 x 280 ft (705 x 85 m), surface: turf
For 12-month period ending September 27, 2022, the airport had 3,800 aircraft operations, an average of 73 per week: 100% general aviation. There were at the time 10 aircraft based at this airport, 9 single-engine, and 1 multi-engine.
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