Centre Piedmont/Cherokee County Regional
PYP · KPYP · Centre, Alabama · Cherokee County · map
Centre Piedmont/Cherokee County Regional is a public-use airport owned by Cpccr Airport Authority, 5 miles south of Centre, Alabama, 595 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 5,500 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PYP · ICAO KPYP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Cpccr Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 595 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 2007
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 5,500 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 07: trees 75 ft high 2,777 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Gadsden and center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.5 |
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Aircraft registered in Centre from the FAA register
25 aircraft are registered to owners in Centre, Alabama: 24 piston singles, 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alabama.
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
- Provided clear 20:1 approaches and the runway centerline have lateral sepn of 60 feet from roads and otr objects for aircraft with approach spds less than 50 kts and 120 feet for aircraft with approach spds of 50 kts or gtr.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway identifier, centerline faded
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.