Morehouse Memorial Airport

Morehouse Memorial Airport
Morehouse Memorial Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KBQP; FAA LID: BQP;
Summary
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°WCoordinates: 32°45′22″N 091°52′50″W / 32.75611°N 91.88056°W
Map
	BQP Location of airport in Louisiana
Runways
Statistics (2012)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	30,200
Based aircraft	16
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

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[]

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]

References[]

^ ^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. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ "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[]

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 February 24, 2022
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

[FAA-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f FAA Airport Form 5010 for BQP – Morehouse Memorial PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective November 15, 2012.

[2] "2F8 – Morehouse Memorial Airport". FAA data republished by AirNav. June 8, 2006. Archived from the original on July 22, 2006.

[3] "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF, 2.03 MB). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[IATA-4] "IATA Airport Code Search (BQP)". International Air Transport Association. Retrieved August 12, 2013.

[5] "Morehouse Memorial Airport (IATA: none, ICAO: KBQP, FAA: BQP)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved August 12, 2013.

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