Ralph Wenz Field

{{Use American English|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox airport

| name = Ralph Wenz Field

| image =

| IATA = PWY

| ICAO = KPNA

| FAA = PNA

| type = Public

| owner = Town of Pinedale

| operator =

| city-served = Pinedale, Wyoming

| location =

| elevation-f = 7,096

| elevation-m = 2,163

| coordinates = {{coord|42|47|44|N|109|48|26|W|region:US_type:airport_scale:10000|display=title,inline}}

| website =

| r1-number = 11/29

| r1-length-f = 8,900

| r1-length-m = 2,713

| r1-surface = Asphalt

| stat-year = 2022

| stat1-header = Aircraft operations (year ending 6/30/2022)

| stat1-data = 3,946

| footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport|ID=PNA|use=PU|own=PU|site=27867.*A}}, effective March 21, 2024.

}}

Ralph Wenz Field {{airport codes|PWY|KPNA|PNA}} is a town-owned public-use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) southeast of the central business district of the town of Pinedale in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned PNA by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA{{Cite web|url=http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KPNA|title=KPNA - Pinedale [Ralph Wenz Field], WY, US - Airport - Great Circle Mapper|website=gc.kls2.com}} (which assigned PNA to Pamplona Airport in Pamplona, Spain{{Cite web|url=http://gc.kls2.com/airport/PNA|title=PNA - Pamplona, NC, ES - Airport - Great Circle Mapper|website=gc.kls2.com}}).

Ralph Wenz Field is named after Staff Sgt. Ralph Wenz of the United States Army Air Corps. Originally from Nebraska, Wenz moved to Wyoming before the war where he learned to fly airplanes,{{Cite web|url=http://suttonhistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2011/12/staff-sergeant-ralph-wenz-wwii-casualty.html?m=1|title = Sutton Nebraska Museum: Staff Sergeant Ralph Wenz - WWII Casualty|date = 31 December 2011}} worked as an air mail pilot, and built airfields. He joined the military and became a radio operator with the Engineers Air Corps Division.{{Cite web|url=https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/125795/world-war-ii-b-24-pilots-remains-laid-to-rest-at-arlington/|title=World War II B-24 pilot|date=10 September 2007 }} He died in 1943 when his aircraft, a B-24, crashed in the Alaska wilderness in what would become the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.{{Cite web|url=http://www.emblemaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/The-Long-Trip-Home.pdf|title=The Long Trip Home|website=www.emblemaviation.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.emblemaviation.com/community/airport-history/|title = Airport History | Emblem Aviation}}{{Cite web| title=Pinedale Roundup 1904-1999 | url=http://www.sublette.com/history/roundup/roundup.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030312121606/http://www.sublette.com:80/history/roundup/roundup.pdf | archive-date=2003-03-12}} His remains were found by a recovery team in October 1944.{{cite web| url = https://www.nps.gov/yuch/learn/historyculture/leon-crane-survival-story.htm| title = A WW II Survival story from the Charley River - Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)}}