Watertown Municipal Airport (Wisconsin)

For other airports with similar names, see Watertown Airport (disambiguation).

Watertown Municipal Airport
File:Watertown Municipal Airport Hangers 2007.jpg
IATA: none – ICAO: KRYV – FAA LID: RYV
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Watertown
Serves	Watertown, Wisconsin
Elevation AMSL	833 ft / 254 m
Coordinates
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 5/23 4,429 1,350 Asphalt 11/29 2,801 854 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations 58,000 Based aircraft 63
Stats for 12 months ending 7/12/2006. Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Watertown Municipal Airport (ICAO: KRYV, FAA LID: RYV) is a public use airport located in and owned by the city of Watertown, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States.

Watertown Municipal Airport was the site of the first Transponder Landing System in the United States.

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

Facilities and aircraft

Watertown Municipal Airport covers an area of 360 acres (150 ha) at an elevation of 833 feet (254 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways:

• Runway 5/23: 4,429 x 75 ft. (1,350 x 23 m.), Surface: Asphalt
• Runway 11/29: 2,801 x 75 ft. (854 x 23 m.), Surface: Asphalt
• ROCK RIVER (RYV) non-directional beacon, 371 kHz, is located on field.

For the 12-month period ending July 12, 2006, the airport had 58,000 aircraft operations, an average of 158 per day: 89% general aviation, 9% air taxi and 2% military. At that time there were 63 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 21% multi-engine and 2% jet.

Aero park

There is an aero-park, sponsored by the local Marine League, located adjacent to the airport where air operations can be observed.

Gallery

• Watertown Aero Park monuments.jpg

  Various monuments at the Marine League Aero Park adjacent to the airport.

• Transponder landing system building (Watertown Municipal Airport, Wisconsin - 31-12-2005).jpg

  TLS Building (Right) and elevation receive antenna (left) as seen December 2005. (TLS equipment was removed prior to September 2007)

External links

• Watertown Municipal Airport PDF at Wisconsin DOT Airport Directory
• Wisconsin Aviation, the Fixed Base Operator (FBO)
• FAA Terminal Procedures for RYV, effective March 20, 2025
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for RYV
  • AirNav airport information for KRYV
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures