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Airport information for Shreveport Regional Airport Country: United States Location: Shreveport Coordinates: 32.27.00N / 093.49.00W IATA Code: SHV Timezone: GMT -6 Direct flights form Shreveport Regional Airport Direct flights to Shreveport Regional Airport Find connecting flights to Shreveport Regional Airport Find connecting flights from Shreveport Regional Airport

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Shreveport Regional Airport (IATA: SHV, ICAO: KSHV, FAA LID: SHV) is a public airport turn up 4 land mile (6.43 kilometre) southwestward of the central downtown of Shreveport, a town in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States. The airport's landing track and depot are seeable to traffic alongside Interstate 20, a briny east-west corridor of the Southern United States. Shreveport Regional was projected to replace the Shreveport Downtown airport, which limited ontogeny due to close propinquity of the Red River.

As per Federal Aviation Administration enters, the airport had 319,960 rider embarkments (enplanements) in civil year 2005 and 306,832 enplanements in 2006. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, it is a primary commercial service airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Shreveport Regional Airport has 2 landing track: 14/32 with an asphalt paved surface measure out 8,351 x 200 foot. (2,545 x 61 m) and 5/32 with an asphalt paved surface measure out 6,201 x 150 foot, both capable of care the heaviest of aircraft. (1,890 x 46 m).

The airport programmes to open a new $7.5 million freight depot in the 1st one-fourth of 2009, assisting as an cast anchor for the Aero Park Industrial Park.

The late restituted depot currently characteristics wireless access and a eating house between the 2 security check out points. The airport is also an jump destination for American Airlines voyages that is able to district at Dallas-Fort Worth Int'l due to inclemency. Passengers of these voyages oftentimes sound off approximately the want of ability to use the air spans to deal bigger aircraft, pressuring the riders to deplane by airstair in inclemency. Shreveport is also the place to the maitanance hanger for regional feeder ExpressJet Airlines for its fleet of Embraer 145 aircraft.

For the 12-month time period finish November 30, 2007, the airport had 56,575 aircraft functioning, an mean of 155 per solar day: 54% air cab, 34% civil aviation 9% armed forces, and 4% local civil aviation. There are 59 aircraft ground at this airport: 39% individual engine, 31% multi-engine, 29% jet plane and 1% eggbeaters.

Shreveport Regional Airport was figure 7 in a February 19, 2009 Forbes Magazine article of America's Top 25 heist airports.

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