Saline County Regional Airport

{{Use American English|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox airport

| name = Saline County Regional Airport

| image = Benton SUZ.jpg

| IATA =

| ICAO = KSUZ

| FAA = SUZ

| type = Public

| owner = Saline County

| operator =

| city-served = Benton, Arkansas

| location = Bryant, Arkansas

| elevation-f = 390

| elevation-m = 119

| website =

| coordinates = {{coord|34|35|25|N|092|28|46|W|region:US-AR|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = USA Arkansas#USA

| pushpin_mapsize = 200

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Arkansas

| pushpin_label = SUZ

| pushpin_label_position = right

| r1-number = 2/20

| r1-length-f = 5,001

| r1-length-m = 1,524

| r1-surface = Asphalt

| stat-year = 2021

| stat1-header = Aircraft operations

| stat1-data = 57,500

| stat2-header = Based aircraft

| stat2-data = 62

| footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport|ID=SUZ|use=PU|own=PU|site=00886.39*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 1 December 2022.

}}

Saline County Regional Airport {{airport codes||KSUZ|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. The airport's address is 1100 Hill Farm Road in Bryant, Arkansas.

{{cite web

| url = https://www.salinecountyregionalairport.com/

| title = Saline County Airport

| publisher = Saline County, Arkansas

| accessdate = 4 December 2022

}}

It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

{{cite web

| url = http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf

| title = 2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB)

| publisher = Federal Aviation Administration

| date = 4 October 2010

}}

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 but has no designation from the IATA

{{cite web

| url = http://www.gcmap.com/airport/KSUZ

| title = Saline County Regional Airport (FAA: SUZ, ICAO: KSUZ, IATA: none)

| publisher = Great Circle Mapper

| accessdate = 17 October 2011

}}

(which assigned SUZ to Suria Airport in Papua New Guinea).

{{cite web

| url = http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=SUZ

| title = Suria Airport, Papua New Guinea (IATA: SUZ)

| publisher = Aviation Safety Network

| accessdate = 17 October 2011

}}

History

The airport is located on a {{convert|1200|acre|ha|sing=on|lk=out}} 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 {{airport codes|||M99}}, also known as Watts Field, was closed after the new airport opened.

{{cite web

| url = https://www.salinecountyregionalairport.com/pages/about.php

| title = Saline County Regional Airport

| publisher = Saline County Regional Airport

| accessdate = 4 December 2022

}}

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).

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.

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