Town Of Pinedale

Ralph Wenz Airport

9357 Highway 191
POB 1766
Pinedale, WY 82941
Jim Parker
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Airport Manager
307-360-9025 cell

 

Pinedale Airport aka Ralph Wenz Field

The Pinedale Airport aka Ralph Wenz Field, located approximately six miles southeast of Pinedale, Wyoming, is a busy general aviation airport regularly used by larger business jet aircraft and smaller single and multi-engine aircraft. The airport is owned by the Town of Pinedale and managed/operated by the Pinedale Airport Board, a Wyoming Joint Powers Board. The Airport Board consists of five Town appointed volunteers who have the responsibility to manage, operate and maintain the airport. In August 2005 the Airport Board hired a professional airport manager responsible for the management, operation and maintenance of the airport.

The airport was named in memory of Ralph Wenz, who was well known in the Pinedale area and was involved with testing cold weather equipment as a navigator in the Army Air Corps in Alaska. He died in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1947. The airport started as a grass landing strip in the late 1940’s. The first paved runway, constructed in the 1950’s, was 60’ x 4,400’. In 1968 the runway was lengthened to 6,600’ with funds raised by local businessmen. There were several land acquisition projects over the years to accommodate future airport expansion. In 1985 a new 100’ x 7,100’ runway was constructed south of the old runway, which was converted into a taxiway. In 2000 the old taxiway was removed and replaced with a new 35’ x 7,100’ taxiway. In the fall of 2007 construction of a new access roadway began to accommodate a 1,800’ runway extension which was completed in August, 2008 bringing the total runway length to 8,900’. This added length gives aircraft currently using the airport greater operational stage lengths, which means they will be able to put on more fuel to travel greater distances without stopping to refuel. This is especially important during the hotter summer months when the airport’s 7,085’ elevation makes it more difficult for aircraft to take-off with a full load of fuel and passengers.

Ralph Wenz Field has over 20 based aircraft, 19 privately owned hangars and 2 hangars owned by the Town of Pinedale. The airport has a full service Fixed Base Operator (FBO) providing aircraft fueling, maintenance and hangar facilities to based and transient aircraft.

Pinedale Airport Board

FBO The fixed base operator for the Town of Pinedale is Emblem Aviation

307-367-2290

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