Sheridan County Airport

Airport
SHR is located in Wyoming
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SHR is located in the United States
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
15/33 8,301 2,530 Asphalt
6/24 5,039 1,536 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations28,656
Based aircraft77
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Sheridan County Airport (IATA: SHR, ICAO: KSHR, FAA LID: SHR) is in Sheridan County, Wyoming, two miles southwest of Sheridan, Wyoming.[1]

Sheridan once again has scheduled passenger airline service with nonstop flights to Denver (DEN).[2] Air service had been subsidized by the federal Essential Air Service program until February 2007, when Big Sky Airlines began providing subsidy free service[3] The Big Sky service was suspended in January 2008 when this air carrier went out of business.[4] Great Lakes Airlines was the only other carrier at Sheridan, but it abruptly ceased all flights on March 31, 2015. Many Sheridan residents were confused regarding the lack of replacement service, believing that service to Sheridan was still subsidized under Essential Air Service. Federal law had been changed in 2012 so that once Sheridan County had left the EAS program, it could not re-enter it and commercial air service to Sheridan is not funded by EAS anymore.[5]

Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 17,710 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[6] 14,181 in 2009 and 14,146 in 2010.[7] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).[8]

Facilities

Sheridan County Airport covers 1,550 acres (627 ha) at an elevation of 4,021 feet (1,226 m). It has two asphalt runways: 15/33 is 8,301 by 100 feet (2,530 x 30 m) and 6/24 is 5,039 by 75 feet (1,536 x 23 m).[1]

In 2018 the airport had 28,656 aircraft operations, average 79 per day: 95% general aviation, 5% air taxi, and <1% military. 97 aircraft were then based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 19% multi-engine, 1% jet, and 2% helicopter.[1]

Bighorn Airways offers airplane and helicopter charter service and an aircraft repair and installation center.

Airlines and destinations

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