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Cedar City Regional Airport lies in southern Utah, two miles northwest of Cedar City, and is the primary gateway by air to a cluster of celebrated national parks in the region. It offers a long ILS-equipped main runway alongside a shorter crosswind strip, together with Delta Connection jet service, general aviation activity and a long-standing local aircraft manufacturing presence.
Cedar City Regional Airport serves Cedar City, Utah, and is owned by the Cedar City Corporation. It is a public airport handling a mix of general aviation, air taxi and subsidised airline service under the Essential Air Service programme, and it is also home to SyberJet Aircraft, manufacturer of the SJ30i and SJ30x business jets, which operates from the field. For a visiting VFR or IFR pilot, the airport's long paved runway, ILS approach and position close to Zion, Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks make it a useful and interesting stop in southern Utah.
The airport sits two miles northwest of downtown Cedar City in Iron County, Utah, at coordinates 37.701, -113.099. It is the closest airport to most of the national parks of the southwest, including Zion, Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks, which makes it a popular staging point for pilots visiting that part of the state.
Cedar City has two paved runways. The main runway, 02/20, is 8,652 feet long, hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS serving runway 20. The secondary runway, 08/26, is 4,811 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit. Field elevation is 5,594 feet.
Pilots can expect an ASOS on 119.025 MHz, a CTAF on 123.6 MHz, a remote radio outlet on 122.2 MHz, and UNICOM on 122.95 MHz. The runway 20 approach is supported by an ILS.
Cedar City is worked on a common traffic advisory frequency of 123.6 MHz rather than by a control tower, so arriving pilots should make standard self-announced calls on that frequency when joining and operating in the local traffic pattern.
There are no published visual reporting points in the available material, but the airport's position two miles northwest of Cedar City, and its proximity to Zion, Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks National Parks, provide useful general orientation for pilots approaching from the surrounding high desert and canyon terrain.
Western Airlines served Cedar City in the 1940s, replaced by Bonanza Air Lines DC-3s in 1957-58 and later by Bonanza's Fairchild F-27s, which flew a route linking Phoenix, Prescott, Grand Canyon, Page, Cedar City and Salt Lake City. Successor carriers Air West and Hughes Airwest continued F-27 services before Hughes Airwest dropped Cedar City in 1977. SkyWest Airlines subsequently operated Essential Air Service flights from 1972, initially with 19-seat Metroliners and later 30-seat Embraer Brasilias. In 2005 the EAS contract passed briefly to Air Midwest, a Mesa Airlines subsidiary, prompting local concern; Mayor Gerald Sherratt called the decision "not good", and residents lobbied Senator Orrin Hatch, who wrote to the Department of Transportation urging a change. Mesa filed to discontinue service in 2007, and the contract was returned to SkyWest. SkyWest now operates as Delta Connection with 76-seat Canadair regional jets flying nonstop to Salt Lake City. A new passenger terminal opened in October 2005, two miles from downtown Cedar City off Highway 56, and a further terminal with facilities for private pilots opened at the airport's fixed base operator, Sphere One Aviation, in 2007.
The airport covers 1,040 acres and continues to host Delta Connection jet service to Salt Lake City alongside a substantial general aviation base. In the year ending December 2022 the field recorded 119,544 aircraft operations, averaging 327 per day, of which 99 percent were general aviation, with small proportions of air taxi, airline and military movements. It had 106 based aircraft: 62 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 7 jet and 34 helicopters. SyberJet Aircraft manufactures its SJ30 business jets on the field, and the fixed base operator Sphere One Aviation provides facilities for visiting private pilots.
