Sugar Land Regional Airport is a city-owned public-use
airport located in
Sugar Land, Texas (
USA), southwest of the
central business district of
Houston.
It was formerly known as
Sugar Land Municipal Airport, or
Hull Field. The airport was purchased from a private interest in 1990 by the city of Sugar Land. As of 2009 it is the fourth-largest airport within the
Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area and 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 Terminal opened in 2006 with a GA complex that includes 99 T-hangars nested in six buildings.
The airport, the fourth largest airport in Greater Houston as of 2009, receives yearly usage from over 100
Fortune 500 companies. TXP, Inc. released a report identifying the airport as "foremost general reliever airport in the southwest sector" and "a catalyst for corporate commerce in the Greater Houston market including the
Westchase District,
Uptown, and
Greenway Plaza." In terms of general aviation the airport serves as a reliever for
William P. Hobby Airport in
Houston. As of 2010 Sugar Land Regional is the third busiest airport in Greater Houston by amount of aircraft operations.
The City of Houston maintains
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