Willow Run Airport

Willow Run Airport (YIP) is a medium airport in Detroit, MI. It carries the IATA code YIP. It sits in North America.

Willow Run Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 7,543-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 7,543 ft (2,299 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.

Willow Run Airport sits near sea level at 716 ft.

Local operations run on America/Detroit. 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 3 departing and 2 arriving private-jet legs at YIP 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 YIP 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.

Willow Run Airport is an airport in Van Buren Charter Township and Ypsilanti Charter Township, near Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, that serves freight, corporate, and general aviation. Due to its very close proximity to Detroit Metropolitan Airport, no major airlines schedule passenger flights to or from Willow Run. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a national reliever airport facility.