Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport

Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KIYA FAA LID: IYA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Abbeville
Serves	Abbeville, Louisiana
Elevation AMSL	16 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	29°58′33″N 092°05′03″W / 29.97583°N 92.08417°W / 29.97583; -92.08417
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 16/34 5,000 1,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Aircraft operations (year ending 5/20/2022) 91,595 Based aircraft 62
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport (ICAO: KIYA, FAA LID: IYA, formerly 0R3) is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (4 mi, 6 km) east of the central business district of Abbeville, a city in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned IYA by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport covers an area of 216 acres (87 ha) at an elevation of 16 feet (5 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 20, 2022, the airport had 91,595 aircraft operations, an average of 251 per day: 53% air taxi, 47% general aviation and <1% military. At that time there were 62 aircraft based at this airport: 40 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 1 jet, 16 helicopter, and 1 glider.^[1]

• List of airports in Louisiana

• Aerial photo as of 24 February 1999 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for IYA, effective October 31, 2024
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for IYA
  • AirNav airport information for KIYA
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures