Saline County Regional Airport

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Saline County Regional Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner Saline County
Serves Benton, Arkansas
Location Bryant, Arkansas
Elevation  AMSL 390 ft / 119 m
Coordinates 34°35′25″N092°28′46″W / 34.59028°N 92.47944°W / 34.59028; -92.47944
Map
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SUZ
Location of airport in Arkansas
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SUZ
SUZ (the United States)
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
2/205,0011,524Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Aircraft operations57,500
Based aircraft62

Saline County Regional Airport( ICAO : KSUZ, FAA LID : SUZ) 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. [1] 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]

Contents

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 [1] 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 1,200-acre (490  ha ) 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 ( FAA LID : M99), 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). [1]

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. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 FAA Airport Form 5010 for SUZ PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 1 December 2022.
  2. "Saline County Airport". Saline County, Arkansas. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  3. "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB)" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. 4 October 2010.
  4. "Saline County Regional Airport (FAA: SUZ, ICAO: KSUZ, IATA: none)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  5. "Suria Airport, Papua New Guinea (IATA: SUZ)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  6. "Saline County Regional Airport". Saline County Regional Airport. Retrieved 4 December 2022.