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Casper-Natrona County International Airport lies on the high plains of central Wyoming, some seven miles northwest of Casper, and offers two long, lit asphalt runways together with an ILS approach, making it a straightforward and well-equipped stop for cross-country VFR or IFR flights in the region. Once a Second World War heavy-bomber training base, it now combines scheduled regional airline service with a busy general aviation and flight-training scene, plus a US Customs facility handling international arrivals.
Casper-Natrona County International Airport serves the city of Casper, Wyoming, and is operated by an Airport Board of Trustees. It hosts scheduled regional airline flights operating as Delta Connection and United Express, alongside general aviation, flight training and occasional charter and international traffic supported by an on-site US Customs facility. For a simulator pilot, its combination of two substantial hard runways, an ILS approach and a control tower makes it a realistic and useful waypoint for flights across the high plains of Wyoming.
The airport is located in Natrona County, about seven miles (11 km) northwest of downtown Casper, Wyoming, off Highway 20/26. It is a controlled aerodrome with its own tower and approach/departure service.
The airfield has two physical runways. Runway 03/21 is 10,149 feet long, hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS approach serving runway 03. Runway 08/26 is 8,653 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit. Field elevation is 5,328 feet.
Casper Tower operates on 118.3 MHz, which also serves as the CTAF. Casper Approach/Departure works on 119 MHz, with a VFR advisory service also available on 118.3 MHz. Ground and clearance delivery is on 121.9 MHz, Casper Radio on 122.2 MHz, ATIS on 126.15 MHz, and Unicom on 122.95 MHz. An ILS approach is available to runway 03.
Casper had earlier airline service in the 1930s at Wardwell Field north of the town, whose runways later became streets in Bar Nunn. The present airport began life as Casper Army Airfield, established in September 1942 with four asphalt runways between roughly 8,600 and 8,900 feet long. It was assigned to the Second Air Force as a heavy bomber replacement training station, with the 331st Bombardment Group training B-17 and B-24 crews through four squadrons before converting to B-29 training in mid-1944 ahead of deployment to the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. The field also served the Air Transport Command as a transit station for Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) ferrying aircraft across the country. Casper AAF was inactivated in March 1945 and passed to the Army Corps of Engineers as surplus later that year, before civil control was restored in the late 1940s; it became Natrona County Municipal Airport in 1949. Western Airlines, tracing back to Wyoming Air Service and Inland Air Lines, was the first scheduled carrier, later joined by Frontier Airlines, Continental Airlines and their regional successors, with Delta Air Lines and SkyWest Airlines maintaining service into the 1990s and beyond. The airport was renamed Casper-Natrona County International Airport in December 2007.
The field today combines scheduled regional airline service, general aviation and flight training, with two flight schools, including Atlas Flight School, based on the airport. Aero Center Casper operates the FBO, offering 100LL and Jet A fuel, hangar and ramp space, a pilot and crew lounge, and ground support services; its stated hours of operation are 06:00 to 22:00. The airport also maintains a US Customs and Border Protection facility supporting the several hundred international charter and private flights that use Casper each year.
