Saline County Regional Airport Explained

Saline County Regional Airport
Icao:KSUZ
Faa:SUZ
Type:Public
Owner:Saline County
City-Served:Benton, Arkansas
Location:Bryant, Arkansas
Elevation-F:390
Elevation-M:119
Coordinates:34.5903°N -92.4794°W
Pushpin Map:USA Arkansas#USA
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Arkansas
Pushpin Label:SUZ
Pushpin Label Position:right
R1-Number:2/20
R1-Length-F:5,001
R1-Length-M:1,524
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2021
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:57,500
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:62
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Saline County Regional Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) east of the central business district of Benton, a city in Saline County, Arkansas, United States. The airport's address is 1100 Hill Farm Road in Bryant, Arkansas.[2] It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[3]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned SUZ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[4] (which assigned SUZ to Suria Airport in Papua New Guinea).[5]

History

The airport is located on a 1200sing=onNaNsing=on site donated to Saline County by ALCOA in August 2002. Construction began in November 2002 and the airport opened on March 12, 2007. The existing Saline County Airport, also known as Watts Field, was closed after the new airport opened.[6]

Facilities and aircraft

Saline County Regional Airport has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2021, the airport had 57,500 aircraft operations, an average of 157 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 62 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single-engine, 6% multi-engine and 6% helicopter.

See also

References

  1. . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 1 December 2022.
  2. Web site: Saline County Airport . Saline County, Arkansas . 4 December 2022 .
  3. Web site: 2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB) . Federal Aviation Administration . 4 October 2010 .
  4. Web site: Saline County Regional Airport (FAA: SUZ, ICAO: KSUZ, IATA: none) . Great Circle Mapper . 17 October 2011 .
  5. Web site: Suria Airport, Papua New Guinea (IATA: SUZ) . Aviation Safety Network . 17 October 2011 .
  6. Web site: Saline County Regional Airport . Saline County Regional Airport . 4 December 2022 .

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