Bicycle Lake Army Air Field
KBYS is the ICAO code for Bicycle Lake Army Air Field (IATA BYS), located in Fort Irwin/Barstow, CA.
Airport guide
Bicycle Lake Army Air Field (KBYS) is a medium airport in Fort Irwin/Barstow, CA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KBYS or IATA code BYS. It sits in North America.
Bicycle Lake Army Air Field is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments.
Bicycle Lake Army Air Field lies at 2,350 ft elevation.
Local operations run on America/Los_Angeles. 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 inventory for KBYS updates continuously as operators publish new empty legs and one-way repositioning trips. Pricing on each leg is available with a free account, and an inventory alert will email you the moment a leg appears on the route you care about.
Regional fields like KBYS 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.
Background from Wikipedia
Bicycle Lake Army Airfield is a military airport located on the Bicycle dry lake bed, three miles (5 km) northeast of the Fort Irwin cantonment area, in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is owned and operated by the United States Army.
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