Sugar Land Regional Airport

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Sugar Land Regional Airport
IATA: SGR - ICAO: KSGR
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		City of Sugar Land
Serves		Sugar Land, Texas
Elevation AMSL		82 ft (25 m)
Coordinates		29°37′20″N, 95°39′23″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
17/35	8,000	2,438	Concrete

Sugar Land Regional Airport (IATA: SGR, ICAO: KSGR), formerly known as Sugar Land Municipal Airport or Hull Field, is located in Sugar Land, Texas—about 25 miles southwest of downtown Houston. The airport was purchased from a private interest in 1990 by the city of Sugar Land. Sugar Land Regional is the fourth-largest airport within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. It 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 and a 60-acre (243,000 m²) GA complex opened in 2006.

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 surround by Sugar Land homes, and there is a highway and rail road track directly south of the airport—all factors that block airport expansion.

[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 a 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.