Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field
RYY · KRYY · Atlanta, Georgia · Cobb County · map
Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field is a public-use airport owned by Cobb County, 21 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, 1,040 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 6,295 feet of concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive) and about 333 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 114,597 takeoffs and landings a year. About 61 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KRYY · observed 5:50 pm EDT (21:50 UTC), 62 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the east (100°) at 8 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 77°F (25°C), dew point 55°F (13°C)
- Altimeter 30.04 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 1:20 pm EDT (17:20 UTC), good until Wed 2:00 pm EDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 2:00 pm EDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the east at 10 knots, gusting to 20, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Tue 7:00 pm EDT (23:00 UTC): wind from the east at 5 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KRYY 062150Z 10008KT 10SM CLR 25/13 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP161 T02500128 PNO $
TAF KRYY 061720Z 0618/0718 10010G20KT P6SM SKC FM062300 08005KT P6SM SKC
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 RYY · ICAO KRYY
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Cobb County
- Elevation
- 1,040 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 11:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 12:00 am
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1942
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 6,295 × 100 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 1,062 ft, 5,233 ft available for landing, road 26 ft high 1 ft from the end
- Runway 27: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), 5,374 ft available for landing, trees 37 ft high 722 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 125.9 | Mc Collum |
| UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 128.125 | Mc Collum |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 119.0 | Mc Collum |
| Approach and departure · Clearance delivery When tower closed | 121.0 | Mc Collum |
| Bokrt and star | 119.8 | Mc Collum |
| Wrgnz and star | 128.575 | Mc Collum |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 770-425-3406.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 114,597, 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 Atlanta from the FAA register
1,591 aircraft are registered to owners in Atlanta, Georgia: 1,124 airliners and large jets, 230 piston singles, 107 business jets, 38 drones, 30 piston twins. 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 Georgia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 32 since 1982, 6 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
- Blasting sunrise to sunset MON-FRI 2000 feet aer 27.
- When the control tower closed, activate malsf runway 27; high-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Landing fee for transient aircraft over 6000 pounds and all transient aircraft between 2100L-0600L.
- Road 0-200 from runway end, 380' right and 180' left.
- Runway 09 approach ratio 19:1 to displaced thld. +85FT trees, 1395FT 532B left
- Airport mowing in progress spring through autumn.
- Coyotes on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 9 is calm wind runway in VFR conditions.
- North apron at taxiway A-1 connector is restricted to group 1 afct only.
- Taxiway B closed from taxiway B5 to B6 to aircraft with wingspans of 79 feet or gtr.
- Turbine/jet aircraft operators are requested to use nbaa noise abatement program procedures or comparable procedures of aircraft manufacturer.
- INT'L operations airport of entry - user fee airport
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.