KTYS is the ICAO code for McGhee Tyson Airport (IATA TYS), located in Alcoa, TN.
McGhee Tyson Airport (KTYS) sits in Alcoa, Tennessee, 12 miles south of downtown Knoxville. The two runways (9,005 ft, 8,995 ft) handle every current business jet. Field elevation 981 ft, no density-altitude concerns. Knoxville serves the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (40 min west), plus the broader East Tennessee corporate community. Heavy Vols football game-day peaks. Ground time to UT campus is 20 minutes; downtown Knoxville is 25.
McGhee Tyson Airport is a public/military airport 12 miles (19 km) south of Knoxville, in Alcoa, Tennessee. It is named for United States Navy pilot Charles McGhee Tyson, who was killed in World War I.
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