Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (IATA: TYR, ICAO: KTYR, FAA LID: TYR) is a city-owned, public-use airport located 3 mi (4.8 km) west of Tyler, in Smith County, Texas, United States.

[3] Federal Aviation Administration records show 76,168 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[4] 73,841 in 2009, and 74,357 in 2010.

At the end of the war, the airfield was turned over to local government for civil use and became Tyler Pounds Regional Airport.

Tyler was listed in Delta Air Lines timetables by 1936 on a Dallas-Atlanta multi-stop route via Shreveport and other stops.

In 1952, Delta Douglas DC-3s flew eastbound Fort Worth – Dallas Love Field – Tyler – Longview, TX – Shreveport – Monroe, LA – Jackson, MS – Meridian, MS – Selma, AL – Montgomery, AL – Columbus, GA – Atlanta as well as westbound Atlanta – Columbus, GA – Montgomery – Meridian – Hattiesburg, MS – New Orleans – Baton Rouge – Alexandria, LA – Shreveport – Tyler – Dallas Love Field – Fort Worth.

[13] Mid-Continent was then acquired by and merged into Braniff International Airways which in the spring of 1953 was operating DC-3 flights on a daily roundtrip routing of Houston Hobby Airport - Longview - Tyler - Tulsa - Joplin - Kansas City - Omaha - Minneapolis/St.

[14][15] Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) also began serving Tyler in the 1940s; its Douglas DC-3s flew between Dallas Love Field, Beaumont/Port Arthur, and Houston Hobby Airport.

In 1952, TTa flew three DC-3s a day to Beaumont/Port Arthur via Lufkin, Palestine, and Nacogdoches, with one flight continuing on to Galveston and Houston.

[20] In 1974, all TI flights at Tyler were being operated with Convair 600 turboprops with three weekday nonstops to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), as well as direct service to Houston and Memphis.

[22] According to the February 1, 1976 Official Airline Guide, Texas International was operating direct Convair 600 service to Tyler from Austin, Houston (IAH), Midland/Odessa, Shreveport and Wichita Falls.

[38] Denver, Colorado-based Frontier Airlines also offered flights from Tyler with Airbus A320 mainline jetliner service nonstop to Denver; these flights lasted from July 2019 to April 2020 with the A320 being the largest aircraft ever to operate scheduled passenger airline service from the airport.