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San Marcos Regional Airport (ICAO: KHYI, FAA LID: HYI) is a public use airport located in Caldwell County, Texas, United States. It is four nautical miles (7 km) east of the central business district of San Marcos, a city that is mostly in Hays County. The airport is owned by the City of San Marcos and operated by Texas Aviation Partners.[1] It is located east of the border of Caldwell County and Hays County.[2] Before it was operated as a civilian airport it was known as Gary Air Force Base.

San Marcos Regional Airport
USGS aerial photo - 28 January 1995
IATA: none ICAO: KHYI FAA LID: HYI
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	City of San Marcos
Serves	San Marcos, Texas
Location	San Marcos, Caldwell County, Texas, USA
Elevation AMSL	594.7 ft / 181 m
Coordinates	29°53′34″N 097°51′47″W
Map
HYI Location of airport in Texas / United States Show map of Texas HYI HYI (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 08/26 6,330 1,929 Asphalt 13/31 5,603 1,708 Asphalt 17/35 5,213 1,589 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft operations 46,422 Based aircraft 108
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned HYI by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[3]

History

Military

It was the site of the Gary Army Airfield

Civilian

Organized San Marcans fought to save the base, and on November 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced in a speech at his alma mater, Southwest Texas State College[lower-alpha 1] that the abandoned Camp Gary would be the site of a new federal vocational training facility called Job Corps. Today it's known as the Gary Job Corps Center, the largest in the nation.

In 2014, the airport was selected to be the location for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's regional fly-in.[5]

Facilities and aircraft

San Marcos Regional Airport covers an area of 1,393 acres (564 ha) at an elevation of 597 feet (182 m) above mean sea level. It has three asphalt paved runways: 8/26 is 6,330 by 100 feet (1,929 x 30 m), 13/31 is 5,603 by 150 feet (1,708 x 46 m) and 17/35 is 5,213 by 100 feet (1,589 x 30 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2015, the airport had 46,422 aircraft operations, an average of 127 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% military and <1% air taxi. At that time there were 108 aircraft based at this airport: 76% single-engine, 20% multi-engine and 4% jet.[1]

Accidents and incidents

• Two airplanes collided on September 24, 2020 while attempting to land at San Marcos Regional Airport. Two men in one of the planes were injured while the pilot and sole occupant of the second one was uninjured. One of the planes burned and the second one overturned after crashing.[6]

See also

• List of airports in Texas

Notes

References

External links

• FAA Terminal Procedures for HYI, effective November 3, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for HYI
  • AirNav airport information for KHYI
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures

На других языках

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- [en] San Marcos Regional Airport

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[fr] Aéroport régional de San Marcos

L'aéroport régional de San Marcos (code IATA : KHYI • code OACI : HYI) est un aéroport civil situé dans le comté de Caldwell au Texas et desservant la ville de San Marcos dans le comté de Hays.

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