Sugar Land Regional Airport

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Sugar Land Regional Airport
IATA: SGR – ICAO: KSGR – FAA: SGR
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Sugar Land
Serves Houston, Texas
Location Sugar Land, Texas
Elevation AMSL 82 ft / 25 m
Coordinates 29°37′20″N 095°39′24″W / 29.62222, -95.65667
Website www.FlySGR.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 8,000 2,438 Concrete
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 90,758
Based aircraft 160
Sources: airport web site[1] and FAA[2]

Sugar Land Regional Airport (IATA: SGR, ICAO: KSGR, FAA LID: SGR) is a city-owned public-use airport located in Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of the central business district of Houston.[1][2]

It was formerly known as Sugar Land Municipal Airport or Hull Field. The airport was purchased from a private interest in 1990 by the city of Sugar Land. It is the fourth-largest airport within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area and handles approximately 250 aircraft operations per day.

The airport today serves the area's general aviation (GA) aircraft serving corporate, governmental, and private clientele. A new 20,000 square foot (1,900 m²) Terminal opened in 2006 and a 60-acre (243,000 m²) GA complex is currently under construction.

The city of Houston maintains a park that occupies 750 acres (3 km²) of land directly north of the Sugar Land Regional Airport that is surrounded by Sugar Land homes, and there is a highway and rail road track directly south of the airport—all factors that block airport expansion.

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[edit] History

Sugar Land Regional Airport briefly handled commercial passenger service during the mid-1990s for a now-defunct Texas carrier known as Conquest Airlines.

The airport was founded by Donald Hull. Hull was an oral surgeon that established a dental program for the Texas Department of Corrections and founded the airport to facilitiate travel to a prison nearby Sugar Land Airport.

The City of Sugar Land opened an NFCT (non-federal control tower) that it funds and operates. This control tower manages traffic within four miles of Sugar Land Airport from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily.

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Sugar Land Regional Airport covers an area of 426 acres (172 ha) and contains one concrete paved runway designated 17/35 which measures 8,000 x 100 ft. (2,438 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending July 28, 2005, the airport had 90,758 aircraft operations, an average of 248 per day: 95% general aviation, 5% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 160 aircraft based at this airport: 58% single-engine, 22% multi-engine, 16% jet and 4% helicopter.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Sugar Land Regional Airport, official web site
  2. ^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for SGR (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20

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