Sawyer County Airport

Sawyer County Airport (KHYR) is a medium airport in Hayward, WI. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KHYR or IATA code HYR. It sits in North America.

Sawyer County Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 5,002-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 5,002 ft (1,525 m), a light-jet-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Phenom 300, Citation CJ4, and Learjet 75. In practice this limits operations to light jets, turboprops, and short-field-capable aircraft.

Sawyer County Airport lies at 1,216 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/Chicago. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 99 departing and 113 arriving private-jet legs at KHYR across the next six months of operator inventory. 4 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KHYR are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Sawyer County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Hayward, Wisconsin. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2025–2029, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility. It was formerly known as Hayward Municipal Airport.