DYS

Dyess Air Force Base

ICAO KDYS32.4208°N 99.8546°W1,790 ft / 546 mMedium airport
On the map
C-130 Hercules, 463rd Tactical Airlifift Wing for a mass airdrop exercise. Dyess Air Force Base
United States Air Force, TSgt Blakely · Public domain · Commons

Dyess Air Force Base (IATA: DYS, ICAO: KDYS) is a medium airport in Abilene, Texas, United States. It has 3 runways; the longest is 13,500 ft (4,115 m). It is operated by Air Force Global Strike Command.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
16/34 · LIT
LENGTH13,500 ft4,115 mWIDTH300 ft91 mSURFACEConcrete
163/343
LENGTH3,500 ft1,067 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEDirt
164/344
LENGTH3,498 ft1,066 mWIDTH60 ft18 mSURFACEAsphalt

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway13,500 ft4,115 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=72of 29,823 · =26 North America · =21 USElevation1,790 ft546 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#9,983of 43,341 · #4,439 North America · #3,348 USRunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =81 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

8 channels
A/DABILENE APP/DEP125.000
ATISATIS38.570
GNDGND118.350
PMSVPMSV METRO38.325
POSTACC COMMAND POST31.100
POSTAMCC34.940
PTDPTD139.300
TWRTWR133.000