Hudson Valley Regional
POU · KPOU · Poughkeepsie, New York · Dutchess County · map
Hudson Valley Regional is a public-use airport owned by Dutchess County, 4 miles south of Poughkeepsie, New York, 164 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 06/24, is 5,001 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA POU · ICAO KPOU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Dutchess County
- Elevation
- 164 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 10:00 pm (15 may-14 sep); 7:00 am to 9:00 pm (15 sep- 14 may)
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 9:30 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
- Notes
- landing fee · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1941
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 5,001 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 15/33 | 2,743 × 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 07/25 | 1,357 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 06: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), tree 18 ft high 380 ft from the end
- Runway 24: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 115 ft, 4,886 ft available for landing, tree 71 ft high 210 ft from the end
- Runway 15: trees 51 ft high 900 ft from the end
- Runway 33: VASI, four boxes on the left, trees 37 ft high 240 ft from the end
- Runway 25: ant 24 ft high 215 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 124.0 | Dutchess County |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Pou and automated weather (ASOS) | 126.75 | Dutchess County |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.8 | Dutchess County |
| Approach and departure · Tresa and star | 132.75 | Dutchess County |
| Poughkeepsie and rco | 122.2 | Poughkeepsie |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 845-836-6748.
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 Poughkeepsie from the FAA register
37 aircraft are registered to owners in Poughkeepsie, New York: 28 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 3 business jets, 2 balloons, 1 piston twin. 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 New York.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 22 since 1982, 3 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
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 06; runway end identifier lights runway 24; high-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 - the common traffic frequency.
- Landing fee for MULTI-ENGINE aircraft.
- Pattern altitude small aircraft 1034 feet, large aircraft 1834 feet.
- Closed nights, durg imc, and from nov 1 - apr 15.
- Runway 15/33 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats. No part 121/PART 380 operations except for tax.
- +13 feet obstruction lighted pole 160 feet from thld 150 feet left.
- VASI restricted to cat a aircraft only.
- Approach slp 4:1 to dthr.
- Birds and deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 07/25 restricted to aircraft less than 12500 pounds.
- Taxiway C, taxiway G T-HNGR txl, and taxiway J T-HNGR txl closed to air carrier aircraft.
- Runway 06 tgl and practice approaches prohibited due to obscd line of sight from the control tower.
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.