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Yellowstone Regional Airport (KCOD) serves Cody, Wyoming, and is the principal general-aviation and commercial gateway to the eastern side of Yellowstone National Park, lying some 53 miles from the park's east entrance. Owned by the City of Cody and operated by a joint powers board, the field offers a single long asphalt runway at a field elevation of 5,085 feet, making it a useful high-altitude training and touring destination for simulator pilots exploring northwestern Wyoming.
Yellowstone Regional Airport, known locally as YRA, sits on the edge of Cody, Wyoming, and is billed by its operator as the year-round aviation gateway to Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding Shoshone National Forest country. It is owned by the City of Cody and run day to day by an airport manager under a joint powers board, and it is the only commercial airport in Park County. For a simulator pilot the appeal lies in its high-altitude, single-runway operation set against dramatic Rocky Mountain scenery, combined with genuine year-round airline and general-aviation traffic.
The airport lies two nautical miles southeast of downtown Cody, in Park County in northwestern Wyoming, roughly 53 miles from the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The published frequency set for the field consists of an automated weather observation, a remote Salt Lake City Center frequency, a remote Casper Radio flight service frequency, and a combined CTAF/UNICOM, with no dedicated tower frequency listed, consistent with an uncontrolled aerodrome operating within the surrounding en-route airspace structure.
The field has one physical hard-surfaced, lit runway aligned 04/22. The 04 threshold is listed with a length of 7,573 feet and the 22 threshold with a length of 7,854 feet, both asphalt and lit. There is no ILS. Field elevation is 5,085 feet, and the airport is located at 44.5202, -109.024.
Weather can be obtained on AWOS at 135.075 MHz. En-route traffic can work Salt Lake City Center on 133.25 MHz, and Casper Radio (flight service) is available on 122.3 MHz. The airfield's CTAF/UNICOM frequency is 122.8 MHz.
The airport is owned by the City of Cody and has been operated since 1981 by the Yellowstone Regional Airport Joint Powers Board, a seven-member body appointed jointly by the Cody City Council and the Park County Commission. A new $12.5 million passenger terminal, funded overwhelmingly by an FAA grant with smaller contributions from the Wyoming State Aeronautics Division and the airport itself, opened in December 2010. On October 29, 2003, a Corporate Air Cessna 208 Caravan attempting an approach in snowy and icy conditions crash-landed on a highway just south of the airport and came to rest inverted in Alkali Lake; the pilot, the sole occupant, was killed.
Yellowstone Regional Airport handles a substantial mix of traffic, with 25,238 aircraft operations recorded in a recent 12-month period, about 92 percent general aviation, 8 percent air taxi, and small shares of airline and military movements. Some 75 aircraft are based on the field, including single- and multi-engine piston types, jets, helicopters, a glider and an ultralight. Scheduled airline service is provided by United Express to Denver year-round, with seasonal service to Chicago. The airport promotes itself as the year-round aviation gateway to Yellowstone National Park and northwest Wyoming.
