Morehouse Memorial Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | City of Bastrop | ||||||||||
| Serves | Bastrop, Louisiana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 168 ft / 51 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°45′22″N 091°52′50″W / 32.75611°N 91.88056°W | ||||||||||
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Morehouse Memorial Airport (ICAO: KBQP, FAA LID: BQP, formerly 2F8[2]) is a public use airport in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, United States.[1] It is owned by the City of Bastrop and located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of its central business district.[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[3]
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BQP by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[4][5]
Facilities and aircraft
[edit]Morehouse Memorial Airport covers an area of 440 acres (178 ha) at an elevation of 168 feet (51 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,002 by 100 feet (1,220 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending March 14, 2012, the airport had 30,200 aircraft operations, an average of 82 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 16 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single-engine and 6% multi-engine.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f FAA Airport Form 5010 for BQP – Morehouse Memorial PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective November 15, 2012.
- ^ "2F8 – Morehouse Memorial Airport". FAA data republished by AirNav. June 8, 2006. Archived from the original on July 22, 2006.
- ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF, 2.03 MB). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010.
- ^ "IATA Airport Code Search (BQP)". International Air Transport Association. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
- ^ "Morehouse Memorial Airport (IATA: none, ICAO: KBQP, FAA: BQP)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
External links
[edit]- Airport page at City of Bastrop website
- Morehouse Memorial Airport (BQP) at LaDOTD airport directory
- Aerial image as of January 1998 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for BQP, effective November 28, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for BQP
- AirNav airport information for KBQP
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures