Arkansas International
BYH · KBYH · Blytheville, Arkansas · Mississippi County · map
Arkansas International is a public-use airport owned by Gosnell Reg Airport Authority, 3 miles northwest of Blytheville, Arkansas, 254 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 11,602 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 27 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 16,000 takeoffs and landings a year. About 5 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BYH · ICAO KBYH
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Gosnell Reg Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 254 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1943
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 11,602 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: ILS with DME
- Runway 36: VASI, four boxes on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Mckellar and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.65 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 16,000, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Blytheville from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Blytheville, Arkansas: 3 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 2 drones. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Arkansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Dusk to dawn. Activate high-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Airport unatndd holidays.
- Fuel available 24 hours self serve with credit card (100 LL)
- Non-standard high-intensity runway lights; located 77 feet from runway edge and non-standard dstc from centerline. Dpt preception problems may exist durg pds of darkness.
- Runway 36 V4L out of service indefinitely.
- Taxiway a between taxiway B and taxiway D takeoff and landing available to military aircraft.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.