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Johnson County Airport is a small county-owned public-use airfield sitting a few miles northeast of Buffalo, Wyoming, at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains. With a single asphalt runway and no instrument approach, it serves general aviation traffic in this rural corner of northern Wyoming and offers a straightforward VFR stop for pilots touring the region.
Johnson County Airport is a county-owned, public-use general aviation field serving Buffalo, Wyoming. It is a modest, single-runway facility with no scheduled airline service today, though it once saw commuter flights linking it to Cheyenne, Casper and Sheridan. For a simulator pilot, it offers an uncomplicated high-plains airfield experience close to the Bighorn Mountains, with a slice of aviation history attached to it.
The airport lies about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of the central business district of Buffalo, Wyoming, in Johnson County. It sits at a field elevation of 4,934 feet, in the open country east of the Bighorn Mountains. No specific controlled airspace detail is given in the available sources, consistent with the airport's status as an uncontrolled, general aviation facility.
The airport has one physical runway, 13/31, orientated southeast-northwest. It is 6,135 feet long, has a hard (asphalt) surface, and is lit for night operations.
Weather is available via ASOS on 135.425 MHz. A remote radio outlet channel to Casper (CASPER RDO) is provided on 122.025 MHz. Common traffic advisory and unicom communications are on 122.8 MHz. The airport has no ILS or other instrument landing aid.
Johnson County Airport has a long-standing role as Buffalo's general aviation gateway. According to the April 15, 1975 edition of the Official Airline Guide, Trans Mountain Airlines, a small Denver-based commuter carrier, operated weekday scheduled passenger flights on a round-trip routing linking Cheyenne, Casper, Buffalo and Sheridan using small twin-engine propeller aircraft. On July 31, 1979, Western Airlines Flight 44, a Boeing 737-200 carrying 94 passengers, mistakenly landed here instead of its intended destination, Sheridan County Airport. The jet's weight caused minor damage to the runway, though there were no injuries.
The airport covers an area of about 240 acres and is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems as a local general aviation facility. For the twelve-month period ending June 30, 2017, it recorded 5,295 aircraft operations, an average of 14 per day, almost entirely general aviation traffic with a small proportion of air taxi and military movements. As of August 2018 the airport had 30 based aircraft: 26 single-engine, 2 multi-engine, 1 jet and 1 helicopter.
