Billy G Ray Field
CNP · KCNP · Chappell, Nebraska · Deuel County · map
Billy G Ray Field is a public-use airport owned by Chappell Airport Authority, 1 mile south of Chappell, Nebraska, 3,682 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 4,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 6 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 3,645 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CNP · ICAO KCNP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Chappell Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 3,682 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cheyenne sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 4,000 × 55 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: road 30 ft high 709 ft from the end
- Runway 30: threshold displaced 130 ft, road 11 ft high 371 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Brush B Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 118.475 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 3,645, 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 Chappell from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Chappell, Nebraska: 1 piston single. 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 Nebraska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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
- Provided approach to each runway is maintenance for a 20:1 glide slope and trsnl surface maintenance for a 7:1 slope.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 preset low intst; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Approach slope 45:1 to displaced thld.
- Severe block cracking and fod through out pvmnt.
- 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.