Cheyenne Regional Airport (IATA: CYS, ICAO: KCYS, FAA LID: CYS) – also known as Jerry Olson Field – is a civil-military airport a mile north of downtown Cheyenne, in Laramie County, Wyoming.

Buck Heffron piloted the first air mail flight to Salt Lake City on September 8, 1920.

The airport was visited by Charles Lindbergh, aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, and Amelia Earhart.

One of the airport's celebrated visitors in recent times was child aviator Jessica Dubroff, who lost her life when her small plane crashed after takeoff in terrible weather in April, 1996.

[5][7] In the year ending December 31, 2020 the airport had 33,250 aircraft operations, average 91 per day: 62% general aviation, 34% military, 3% air taxi and <1% airline.

[citation needed] In July, 1927, the Boeing Aircraft Company began its own airline operating a route from San Francisco to Chicago with stops at Sacramento, Reno, Elko, Salt Lake City, Rock Springs, Cheyenne, North Platte, Lincoln, Omaha, Des Moines, and Iowa City.

However, with better aircraft that could fly over the Rocky Mountains, Denver became the focal point for the transcontinental route rather than Cheyenne.

Another carrier, Wyoming Air Service, began a northbound route from Cheyenne to Casper, Sheridan, and Billings in 1931.

Western Airlines would later acquire Wyoming Air Service and operate a Denver-Cheyenne-Casper-Sheridan-Billings route which lasted until 1979.

One 737 jet was operated in each direction every day and continued through the entire decade of the 1970s, making the "milk run" from Denver to Billings with three stops in Wyoming.

Rocky Mountain Airways began service in early 1979 flying de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters and DHC-7 Dash 7s.

After the collapse of Frontier in early 1985, Rocky Mountain Airways was the only airline flying Cheyenne to Denver with up to nine round trips daily using Twin Otters.

Great Lakes, the only carrier serving Cheyenne, moved its headquarters to the airport and also established an aircraft maintenance base on the field.

Some flights to Denver operated with a larger Embraer 120 Brasilia aircraft; however, the company shut down on March 26, 2018 which left Cheyenne with no air service.

[22] After the collapse of Great Lakes Airlines in 2018, the city of Cheyenne revisited with American and reinstated American Eagle service to Dallas/Fort Worth beginning on November 4, 2018, this time operated by SkyWest Airlines using Bombardier CRJ100/200 regional jets.

[24] With the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020 and the associated drop in air travel, all American Eagle service was discontinued.

Service was suspended on April 16, 2021 for runway upgrades and returned on November 1, 2021 with two daily flights to Denver.

This is believed to have been caused by a trend in the general public preferring to first drive to a larger airport, such as Denver, rather than fly from a smaller hometown facility.

[citation needed] This has been the case at most smaller cities around the United States, many of which have lost all air service.