Tyler Pounds Regional Airport
Tyler Pounds Regional Airport
Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (IATA: TYR, ICAO: KTYR, FAA LID: TYR) is a city-owned, public-use airport located 3 miles (4.8 km; 2.6 nmi) west of Tyler, in Smith County, Texas, United States. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a "primary commercial service" airport. Federal Aviation Administration records show 76,168 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 73,841 in 2009, and 74,357 in 2010. The airport has been expanding to meet goals in the Tyler Master Plan; on August 17, 2002, the airport opened a new terminal building, doubling its space. Tyler is a large center for general aviation, with three public parking lots for general aviation.
Location
32.354°N, 95.402°O · 166 m s. n. m. (544 ft)
General data
Runways · 3
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 6 Official publication
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
see: Pounds Army Airfield for its World War II use
The airport opened in November 1929 as Tyler Municipal Airport. During World War II, the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base and renamed Pounds Field after Lieutenant Jack Windham Pounds. At the end of the war, the airfield was turned over to local government for civil use and became Tyler Pounds Regional Airport.
Historical airline service
Airline service at Tyler began in the 1930s. By July 1935, Delta Air Lines included the city on a Dallas–Atlanta route and later operated Douglas DC-3 service linking Tyler with Dallas Love Field, Shreveport, and Atlanta before withdrawing in 1956.
Mid-Continent Airlines served Tyler beginning in the 1940s with DC-3 flights connecting Houston Hobby Airport with cities in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and the Upper Midwest. The carrier was acquired by Braniff International Airways in 1952, which briefly continued service before discontinuing it in 1953.
Trans-Texas Airways began service in the 1940s with DC-3 flights to Dallas and Houston, later introducing Convair 240 and Convair 600 aircraft. After becoming Texas International Airlines in 1969, it operated turboprop service to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Houston Intercontinental Airport, and other regional destinations before leaving Tyler in 1978.
Commuter airlines expanded service during the 1970s and 1980s. Metroflight Airlines, later an American Eagle affiliate for American Airlines, operated frequent de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and Short 330 flights to DFW. Competing regional service was later provided by American Eagle and Delta Connection (operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines) using Saab 340 and Embraer turboprops.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Continental Express operated turboprop service to Houston. Following Continental’s 2012 merger with United Airlines, flights became United Express; United ended service in April 2016, citing reduced demand linked to the energy sector.
From July 2019 to April 2020, Frontier Airlines operated mainline Airbus A320 nonstop service to Denver, the largest aircraft type to provide scheduled passenger service at Tyler.
Museum
The Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, an aviation museum located at the airport, rented and moved into the former Tyler passenger terminal that had been closed since 2002. The museum has a number of military jet fighters on display among other exhibits, and also flies and maintains two Russian-manufactured MiG-17F jets based at the airport.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 158 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
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.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · view original
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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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (TYR). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TYR
MLA
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Chicago
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Harvard
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BibTeX
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