Tyler Pounds Regional
TYR · KTYR · Tyler, Texas · Smith County · map
Tyler Pounds Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Tyler, 3 miles west of Tyler, Texas, 544 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 8,334 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TYR · ICAO KTYR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Tyler
- Elevation
- 544 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:30 am to 9:30 pm
- Attended
- every day, 5:00 am to 10:00 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
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1937
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 8,334 × 150 ft | Concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 5,198 × 150 ft | Asphalt, fair | High-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 4,832 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 7,734 ft available for landing
- Runway 22: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 600 ft, 7,734 ft available for landing, tree 28 ft high 1,146 ft from the end
- Runway 13: pole 28 ft high 1,550 ft from the end
- Runway 31: VASI, four boxes on the left, road 14 ft high 600 ft from the end
- Runway 18: tree 38 ft high 1,100 ft from the end
- Runway 36: tree 43 ft high 1,158 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 120.1 | Pounds |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 126.25 | Pounds |
| Ground | 121.9 | Pounds |
| Approach and departure | 128.75 | Pounds |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Pounds |
| Tyler and center (remote transmitter) Low | 135.25 | Pounds |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 903-535-9105.
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Aircraft registered in Tyler from the FAA register
127 aircraft are registered to owners in Tyler, Texas: 88 piston singles, 13 business jets, 11 piston twins, 6 drones, 4 turboprops. 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 Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 since 1982, 2 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 04; runway end identifier lights runway 22; high-intensity runway lights runway 04/22; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency. High-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 preset med intst, to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 04 and 22, VASI runway 31 operates continuously.
- Unusable beyond 9 degrees left and right of runway centerline.
- Helicopters operating inbound or outbound to/from the downtown hospitals state intention on 123.075.
- West side psgr terminal ramp access restricted to air carrier.
- Conditions not mntd between the hours of 9:30 PM and 6:30 AM local.
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.