Cheyenne County Municipal Airport

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Cheyenne County Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KSYF – FAA: SYF
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of St. Francis
Location		St. Francis, Kansas
Elevation AMSL		3,411 ft / 1,040 m
Coordinates		39°45′40″N 101°47′45″W / 39.76111, -101.79583
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	1,799	548	Turf
13L/31R	2,833	863	Turf
13R/31L	3,138	956	Asphalt
18/36	2,313	705	Turf
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			3,950
Based aircraft			12
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Cheyenne County Municipal Airport (ICAO: KSYF, FAA LID: SYF) is a public airport located one mile (2 km) south of the central business district of St. Francis, a city in Cheyenne County, Kansas, United States. This airport is publicly owned by City of St. Francis.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Cheyenne County Municipal Airport is assigned SYF by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned SYF to Silva Bay on Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada). The airport's ICAO identifier is KSYF.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Cheyenne County Municipal Airport covers an area of 307 acres (124 ha) which contains four runways:^[1]

Runway 9/27: 1,799 x 280 ft. (548 x 85 m), Surface: Turf
Runway 13L/31R: 2,833 x 180 ft. (863 x 55 m), Surface: Turf
Runway 13R/31L: 3,138 x 50 ft. (956 x 15 m), Surface: Asphalt
Runway 18/36: 2,313 x 280 ft. (705 x 85 m), Surface: Turf

For 12-month period ending June 7, 2006, the airport had 3,950 aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day: 96% general aviation and air taxi. There are 12 aircraft based at this airport, all single engine.^[1]