MC Ghee Tyson Airport
TYS · KTYS · Knoxville, Tennessee · Blount County · map
MC Ghee Tyson Airport is a public-use airport, 10 miles south of Knoxville, Tennessee, 986 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05L/23R, is 10,000 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TYS · ICAO KTYS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 986 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1970
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05L/23R | 10,000 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 05R/23L | 9,000 × 150 ft | Asphalt, poor | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 05L: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 490 ft, 9,508 ft available for landing
- Runway 23R: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 505 ft, 9,495 ft available for landing
- Runway 05R: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, 8,600 ft available for landing
- Runway 23L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 397 ft, 8,600 ft available for landing
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 128.35 | Knoxville |
| Clearance delivery | 121.65 | Knoxville |
| Clearance delivery | 121.7 | |
| Ground | 121.9 | Knoxville |
| Tower | 121.2 | Knoxville |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 051 to 229 | 118.0 | Knoxville |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 230 to 050 | 123.9 | Knoxville |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) | 125.525 | Knoxville |
| Approach and departure | 132.8 | |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Knoxville |
| Tys and vot | 112.0 | |
| Ang and operations | 143.8 | Knoxville |
| Arng and operations | 149.8 | Knoxville |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 423-219-5043.
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Aircraft registered in Knoxville from the FAA register
383 aircraft are registered to owners in Knoxville, Tennessee: 261 piston singles, 40 business jets, 20 turboprops, 19 piston twins, 13 helicopters. 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 Tennessee.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 19 since 1982, 5 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
- Military contr fuel available.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of of airport; incrd OCT-APR.
- Runway 23L and 23R departure mntn runway hdg until passing residential area south of extdd centerline unless instrd by air traffic control.
- Wide body use ctn turning onto taxiway a from ramp 4, 5 and 6.
- Ctn: ptn of taxiway a near runway 05R approach end not vsb from tower.
- Ang: comd post H24 - D266-4371/ C865-336-4371. Amgr does not issue or store comsec for transient. Tmpry stor of classified materials up to top secret at comd post.
- Ctn: hold short line for runway 23L slightly north of taxiway A-8.
- Ang: arng ramp not suitable for amc aircraft except C-21.
- Cstms/agricultural/img: military customs 72 hour prior permission required.
- Runway 5L/23R and 5R/23L WT brg cpty for 2S landing gear is 175.
- General aviation ramp not available for air carrier operations.
- Runway 05R/23L dist rmng signs are removed.
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.