St. George Regional Airport

IATA: SGU
ICAO: KSGU
FAA LID: SGU

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner/Operator

City of St. George

Serves

St. George, Utah

Elevation AMSL

2,884 ft / 879 m

Coordinates

37°02′11″N 113°30′37″W / 37.03639°N 113.51028°WCoordinates: 37°02′11″N 113°30′37″W / 37.03639°N 113.51028°W

Website

www.flysgu.com

Map

SGU

SGU

Location of airport in Utah / United States

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
1/19	9,300	2,835	Asphalt

Source: Federal Aviation Administration

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St. George Regional Airport (IATA: SGU, ICAO: KSGU, FAA LID: SGU) is a city-owned, public-use airport located five nautical miles (5.8 miles; 9.3 km) southeast of the central business district of St. George, a city in Washington County, Utah, United States.

The current airport opened on January 13, 2011, and is a replacement for prior, smaller land-locked St. George Municipal Airport, located atop a mesa in the city, which was declared unsuitable for expansion the city needed for population growth. It is served by SkyWest Airlines on behalf of Delta Air Lines and United Airlines. SkyWest, which is one of the largest regional airlines in the world, is also based in St. George.

The former airport used SGU as the location identifier for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and International Air Transport Association (IATA). The new airport was assigned a transitional identifier DXZ by the FAA, but retained the IATA designation SGU. On December 15, 2011, the FAA returned SGU to use at the new airport.

The prospect of a new airport for the region has been around for many years. The old airport, on top of a mesa, is land-locked and has no room for expansion. The runway and terminal were too small for larger aircraft. With the rapid growth of the area and tourism increasing, the need for a new airport became vital. It was built about 6 miles southeast of downtown at the site of an abandoned airfield which had not seen air traffic since 1961 and most recently has been used for vehicle drag racing and radio controlled aircraft.

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