HYSKHYS

Hays Regional Airport

Hays, United States

North America America/Chicago

2runways

1,982 mLongest runway

55Aircraft documented

Hays Regional Airport (IATA: HYS, ICAO: KHYS, FAA LID: HYS) is three miles southeast of Hays, in Ellis County, Kansas, United States. It is used for general aviation and is home to one airline, United Express. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025 categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year). In the 1950s the airport was known as the Hays Municipal Airport and located in the half-mile square whose southeast corner was at East 13th Street and Canterbury Drive. The current airport opened around 1960 with a 4000-ft runway.

Location

38.845°N, 99.273°O · 609 m s. n. m. (1.999 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States

CityHays

IATA codeHYS

ICAO codeKHYS

Coordinates38.845°N, 99.273°O

Elevation609 m s. n. m. (1.999 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Chicago

Runways2

Longest runway1,982 m

Runways · 2

16/34

Length1,982 m6,503 ft

Width30 m98 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

04/22

Length1,372 m4,501 ft

Width23 m75 ft

SurfaceConcrete

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

What flies here

From our own logbook: 55 aircraft documented between 2018 and 2025.

55Aircraft documented

1,910Movements recorded

2018–2025Years on record

Types seen here

Bombardier CRJ27

Airlines with documented aircraft

SkyWest Airlines 55

Busiest routes from here

DENDenver32 flights

A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on September 27, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, September 27). Hays Regional Airport (HYS). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HYS

MLA

“Hays Regional Airport (HYS).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 27 Sept. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HYS. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Hays Regional Airport (HYS).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified September 27, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HYS.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Hays Regional Airport (HYS). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HYS (Accessed: 23 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_hys,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Hays Regional Airport (HYS)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-09-27},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HYS},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HYS}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-23},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}

Wikipedia

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