The Beauregard Parish Airport, an ex-Army Air Base, was transferred to Beauregard Parish at the end of WWII on Dec. 23, 1948 and remains an active public airport. By the terms of transfer, the property must remain an airport and all revenues generated by the property must be used to benefit the airport. The total property exceeds 4,200 acres. This includes an airfield, acreage for aeronautical leases, commercial/industrial leases, recreational leases, and large areas devoted to forestry & agriculture. All non-aeronautical property was transferred as part of the original grant to provide a revenue source for operation, maintenance, and improvement/development of the airport. As a result, the airport is self-supporting and receives no local taxes.


The Airport is owned by Beauregard Parish and is a component of the Beauregard Parish Police Jury. The Police Jury has created an Airport District headed by a seven member Board of Commissioners. The board employs an Airport Manager and 3 full-time employees. Part time employees are hired based on seasonal needs.


The present primary runway (RW 18/36) is oriented in a North-South direction with a length of 5,495 feet. This runway is lighted with Medium Intensity Runway Lights which can be controlled from an aircraft by radio. Both Localizer and Non-Directional Beacon instrument approaches are aligned with RW 36 allowing instrument approaches to a ceiling of 300 feet and visiblity of one mile. After 50 years, RW 14/32 was reopened in 1992 as an alternate runway with a lenght of 4,295 feet. The airport has also added ODALS and an AWOS-3 unit. The AWOS fequency is 118.225. The AWOS phone number is (337)-463-8278.





A concrete airplane parking ramp, 1600' by 400' is adjacent to the main hangar and has tie downs for 200 aircraft. This makes the airport very attractive during hurricane season when many aircraft use this as an evacuation location.


The main hangar contains 33,000 square feet and includes 8,000 square feet devoted to administration/terminal functions.


In 1994 the hangar was completely re-roofed with airport funds. A six-unit T-hangar was constructed in 1992. In 1993 an updated and improved aircraft wash rack was built conforming to environmental regulations. In 1998 a new Corporate Aircraft hangar was completed with 7200 square feet of space. All of the hangars are full. And in 1998, double-wall, above ground, 10,000 gallon fuel tanks were installed to meet EPA/DEQ regulations. All of these improvements were paid for with airport funds generated by the airport.


The airport has available, for fueling, both JET-A and AVGAS. Essentially the airport can accommodate most corporate jets, turbine, and piston aircraft up to 60,000 lbs. single wheel, as well as other general aviation aircraft.






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