Dyess Air Force Base
DYS · KDYS · Abilene, Texas · Taylor County · map
Dyess Air Force Base is a private airport owned by Usaf, 5 miles southwest of Abilene, Texas, 1,790 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 16/34, is 13,500 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (Jet A with additive).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA DYS · ICAO KDYS
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
- Owner
- Usaf
- Elevation
- 1,790 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- Jet A with additive; the services card below
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 13,500 × 300 ft | Concrete | High-intensity lights |
| 163/343 | 3,500 × 60 ft | Dirt | |
| 164/344 | 3,498 × 60 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 16: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1)
- Runway 34: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1)
Radio frequencies
| Ground | 118.35 | Dyess |
| Tower | 133.0 | Dyess |
| Approach and departure East | 125.0 | Dyess |
| Approach and departure West | 127.2 | Dyess |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Dyess |
| Pre-taxi clearance | 139.3 | Dyess |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Oxygen
- bulk oxygen (low-pressure)
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Abilene Regional (9 nm east), Arledge Field (30 nm north), Avenger Field (31 nm west), Albany Municipal (35 nm northeast).
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Abilene Regional (9 nm east), Avenger Field (31 nm west), Albany Municipal (35 nm northeast).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Texas · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Pattern altitude: 1210 feet above ground level rectangular, 1710 feet above ground level overhead.
- Runway landing zone closed.
- Caution: ints training and formation flight of hvy aircraft in the immed vicinity.
- Caution: aircraft lrgr than C130 only allowed 180 degrees turns on concrete surface at north and south ends of runway 16-34.
- Traffic pattern: dur vmc departure aircraft must remain at or below 3000' until field bdry to ensure separation FR VFR overhead.
- Bearing strength runway 161-341: auw 155.
- Traffic pattern: rsrs applies to all local aircraft. B1 8000', C130 5000' separation, B1 rqr minimum ceil/visibility 1500'/3 SM and runway surface dry.
- Jasu: 1(MD-3) 1(A/M32A-60A) 1(A/M32A-86) 1(A/M32A-95).
- Fluid: lpox DE-ICE.
- Oil: O-133-148-156.
- Caution: extv VFR assault strip traffic west of runway 16-34.
- Caution: afld signs rqr B52 aircraft exit runway 16-34 at taxiway F.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Abilene from the FAA register
109 aircraft are registered to owners in Abilene, Texas: 87 piston singles, 9 piston twins, 4 business jets, 3 turboprops, 3 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Macav Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · Abilene, 10 miles away
Repair stations in Abilene:
- Eagle Aviation Services INC
- Freeman Holdings of West Texas, LLC Freeman Jet Center is an FBO and repair station based in Abilene, Texas, operating since 1968.
- Sturgill Turbine Service INC
- Texas Aerospace Services INC
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Abilene 109 aircraft · 87 piston singles, 9 piston twins, 4 business jets
- Rockhut Aviation LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Jaju Aviation INC 2 aircraft in town
- Macav Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Eagle Aviation Services INC · repair station
- Freeman Holdings of West Texas, LLC · repair station
- Sturgill Turbine Service INC · repair station
- Texas Aerospace Services INC · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 4 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,056 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 393 landing places
- Texas 29,943 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/DYS.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.