Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport


Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Sulphur Springs, a city in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
It was named Texas Airport of the Year for 2003 by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Facilities and aircraft

Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport covers an area of 197 acres at an elevation of 489 feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 1/19 with a concrete surface measuring 5,001 by 75 feet.
For the 12-month period ending March 7, 2009, the airport had 17,910 aircraft operations, an average of 49 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% military, and <1% air taxi. At that time there were 74 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, 1% jet, 1% helicopter, and 1% ultralight.