🇺🇸 Sugar Land Regional Airport

Sugar Land Regional Airport (SGR), also known as KSGR, is a city-owned public-use airport located in Sugar Land, Texas, approximately 17 miles southwest of Houston,,.

Type of facility and operations: SGR is a regional "reliever" airport primarily serving private and corporate aviation, including business jet and turboprop flights,. It is open to the public and has an airport traffic control tower that operates from 06:00 to 22:00 daily,. The airport offers fuel (100LL and Jet A+), parking, major airframe and powerplant services, and is a US Customs User Fee Airport.

Notable features or history: Originally established as Hull Field in the early 1950s, it was acquired by the City of Sugar Land in 1990 and renamed Sugar Land Municipal Airport. It received its current name, Sugar Land Regional Airport, in October 2002,. The airport has undergone extensive upgrades, including a new 20,000-square-foot passenger terminal opened in 2006 and a reinforced concrete runway measuring 8,000 feet by 100 feet,,. It was named the Outstanding Airport of the Year in 1995 by the FAA Southwest Region.

Current status: As of February 2023, the airport had 43,973 aircraft operations over a 12-month period, averaging 120 per day, with 99% being general aviation. There were 162 aircraft based at the airport, including single-engine, multi-engine, jet, and helicopter aircraft. The airport is operational, though there is an active construction notice.

*Sources researched: sugarlandregionalairport.com, nfdc.faa.gov, en.wikipedia.org, eb.archive.org, airnav.com*