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Shreveport Regional Airport

airport in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7040641 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shreveport Regional Airport (IATA: SHV, ICAO: KSHV, FAA LID: SHV) is a public use airport in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. It is operated by the Shreveport Airport Authority which is chartered by the City of Shreveport. The airport is located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of its central business district.

The airport's runways and terminal are visible to traffic along Interstate 20, a main east–west corridor of the Southern United States. Shreveport Regional was designed to replace the Shreveport Downtown Airport, which limited growth due to its close proximity of the Red River.

The airport had 800,135 passengers in calendar year 2025. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, it is a primary commercial service airport.

The FAA classifies Shreveport Regional Airport as a "Small Hub" airport. For the 2018 calendar year, Shreveport Regional Airport ranked just under Mobile Regional Airport (Mobile, Alabama) and Augusta Regional Airport (Augusta, Georgia) and just above Grand Canyon National Park Airport (Grand Canyon, Arizona) and Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (Aspen, Colorado) in total enplanements.

History

Historically, Shreveport was served by a number of airlines operating mainline jet service.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Shreveport Regional Airport” as airport in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shreveport, Regional and Airport.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Shreveport, Regional and Airport providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Shreveport Regional Airport”, the useful work is to connect “airport in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7040641. Authority coordinates are 32.447, -93.826. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025 and 2018.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Jurisdictional context
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shreveport Regional Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shreveport Regional Airport primary sources, Shreveport Regional Airport archive and Shreveport research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Shreveport Regional Airport”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Shreveport Regional 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.