Baton Rouge Metro, Ryan Field
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Baton Rouge Metro, Ryan Field is a public-use airport owned by East Baton Rouge Parish, 4 miles north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 04L/22R, is 7,500 feet of concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 170 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 72,430 takeoffs and landings a year. About 410,434 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KBTR · observed 5:53 pm CDT (22:53 UTC), 39 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the east-southeast (120°) at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a few clouds at 5,000 feet
- Temperature 85°F (29°C), dew point 69°F (21°C)
- Altimeter 29.88 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 6:20 pm CDT (23:20 UTC), good until Wed 7:00 pm CDT (00:00 UTC)
- From Tue 7:00 pm CDT (00:00 UTC): wind light and variable, visibility more than 6 miles, a few clouds at 3,500 feet, a few clouds at 25,000 feet VFR
- From Wed 12:00 pm CDT (17:00 UTC): wind from the east-northeast at 8 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, a few clouds at 5,000 feet, a few clouds at 25,000 feet VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KBTR 062253Z 12006KT 10SM FEW050 29/21 A2988 RMK AO1 SLP116 T02940206 PNO $
TAF KBTR 062320Z 0700/0724 VRB04KT P6SM FEW035 FEW250 FM071700 06008KT P6SM FEW050 FEW250
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BTR · ICAO KBTR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- Elevation
- 70 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · 5:00 am to 12:00 am
- Attended
- every day, 5:00 am to 12:00 am
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1942
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04L/22R | 7,500 × 150 ft | Concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 7,005 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 04R/22L | 3,799 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04L: pole 52 ft high 2,200 ft from the end
- Runway 22R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 13: ILS with DME, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 597 ft, 5,720 ft available for landing, pole 76 ft high 2,345 ft from the end
- Runway 31: VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights (MALS), threshold displaced 314 ft, 6,094 ft available for landing, road 11 ft high 230 ft from the end
- Runway 04R: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.45 | Ryan |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 125.2 | Ryan |
| Clearance delivery | 119.4 | Ryan |
| Ground | 121.9 | Ryan |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace West | 120.3 | Ryan |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace East | 133.225 | Ryan |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Ryan |
| Slidell and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.35 | Ryan |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 225-370-8455.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 72,430, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Baton Rouge from the FAA register
227 aircraft are registered to owners in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 120 piston singles, 28 business jets, 21 turboprops, 19 drones, 17 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Louisiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 25 since 1982, 4 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- When the control tower closed use frequency 121.9 to contact rescue and firefighting (ARFF) for emergency required.
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runways 22R and 13 and mals runway 31 - the common traffic frequency. When the control tower closed high-intensity runway lights runways 13/31 and 04L/22R preset low intst; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 04R/22L not available.
- City of Baton Rouge and parish of East Baton Rouge.
- Engineered material arresting system (emas) with 75 feet setback 234 feet in length by 170 feet in width located at the der 13.
- Runway 04R/22L not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- +7 feet fence 200 feet 406 feet left.
- +7 feet fence 200 feet 496 feet right.
- +68 feet tree, 1578 feet, 516 right.
- Migratory birds on and in the vicinity of airport during months of mar/apr/sep and oct.
- Taxiway east weight restrictions: single 44,000 pounds; dual 55,000 pounds; dual tandem 93,000 pounds.
- Ramp and taxiway lane adjacent to the commerical air carrier terminal building is lmtd to commerical air carrier and psgr airtaxi aircraft only.
- Runway 4R/22L and taxiway east are similar in apprnc. Use ctn when exiting runway 13/31.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.