Clay Center Municipal
CYW · KCYW · Clay Center, Kansas · Clay County · map
Clay Center Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Clay Center, 2 miles west of Clay Center, Kansas, 1,209 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 4,197 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CYW · ICAO KCYW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Clay Center
- Elevation
- 1,209 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Wichita sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1942
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,197 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 202 ft
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 227 ft, road 14 ft high 465 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.25 | |
| Cyw and aWOS-3T | 119.95 | |
| Manhattan and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.35 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3T), by phone 785-777-2507.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Clay Center from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Clay Center, Kansas: 6 piston singles, 3 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 1 drone. 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 Kansas.
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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 17 and 35; PAPI runway 17 and 35 - the common traffic frequency. Runway 17/35 medium-intensity runway lights preset low intst DUSK-2200; to incr intst or activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Obstruction clnc slp 49:1 to dthr.
- Crops and irrigation equipment in aer 17.
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.