Hugoton Municipal Airport


Hugoton Municipal Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Hugoton, a city in Stevens County, Kansas, United States.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned HQG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
In 1952, a Braniff Airways Douglas DC-4 with an uncontrollable engine fire made a successful emergency landing at Hugoton Municipal Airport. Minor injuries were reported among the 45 passenger and three crew members. The DC-4 was destroyed by fire after the successful landing. Captain Stanford was praised for his quick actions and judgement. https://web.archive.org/web/20111008095045/http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_aircraftacc

Facilities and aircraft

Hugoton Municipal Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 3,134 feet above mean sea level. It has two runways: 2/20 is 5,000 by 75 feet with a concrete surface; 13/31 is 2,627 by 60 feet with an asphalt surface.
For the 12-month period ending August 22, 2007, the airport had 10,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day. At that time there were 18 aircraft based at this airport: 83% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, and 6% ultralight.