Bagdad Airport
airport in Yavapai County, Arizona
Bagdad Airport (IATA: BGT, FAA LID: E51) is a county-owned public-use airport located 2.3 miles (2.0 nmi; 3.7 km) northeast of the central business district of Bagdad, in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
History
At least at one point during its history, Bagdad airport had commercial airline service, with Desert Pacific Airlines flying from Lake Havasu City and Prescott, both in Arizona, during 1979.
Facilities and aircraft
Bagdad Airport covers an area of 91 acres (37 ha) at an elevation of 4,183 feet (1,275 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 5/23 with a 4,575 by 60 ft (1,394 x 18 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending May 3, 2007, the airport had 1,000 aircraft operations, an average of 83 per month, all of which were general aviation.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bagdad Airport” as airport in Yavapai County, Arizona. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as airport in Yavapai County, Arizona. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2901627. Authority coordinates are 34.596, -113.170. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 2007.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bagdad Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.