Capital City Airport
CXY · KCXY · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania · York County · map
Capital City Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 347 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 97 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 28,749 takeoffs and landings a year. About 16 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KCXY · observed 6:56 pm EDT (22:56 UTC), 35 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 54°F (12°C), dew point 42°F (6°C)
- Altimeter 30.09 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KCXY 062256Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 12/06 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP192 T01220056 $
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 CXY · ICAO KCXY
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 347 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,500 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 11:00 pm
- 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
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1938
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 5,000 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 12/30 | 3,778 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), trees 76 ft high 1,883 ft from the end
- Runway 26: VASI, four boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, pole 15 ft high 445 ft from the end
- Runway 12: VASI, four boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 37 ft high 515 ft from the end
- Runway 30: VASI, four boxes on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.5 | Capital City |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 134.95 | Capital City |
| Ground | 121.9 | Capital City |
| Approach and departure | 124.1 | Capital City |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Capital City |
| Capital City Rco | 122.2 | Capital City |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 717-216-0264.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 28,749, 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 Harrisburg from the FAA register
53 aircraft are registered to owners in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: 38 piston singles, 5 business jets, 3 drones, 3 balloons, 2 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 Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 since 1982, 2 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
- Prior permission required for hazardous cargo.
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 08; high-intensity runway lights runway 08/26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 and taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency.
- High terrain south runway 12/30. Pattern altitude 1500(1153) conventional.
- And runway 12/30, prior permission required for loads over 100,000 pounds.
- Runway 26 +7 feet road;golf course, +6 feet fence east and south of runway end.
- Runway 08 PAPI unusable beyond 7 degreess right of crs.
- Airport closed to far part 121 aircraft.
- Bird flocks on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Alert: active txy prior to runway 12 relocated thld, no T/O or landing on this surface.
- Use ctn: due to proximity and runway almnt, aircrews have mistaken mdt RWY13/31 for cxy runway 12/30 which is 4 NM west.
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.