Airport of the Year

Community engagement, a focus on safety and sustainability, and upgrading a system providing weather conditions helped make Sedona Airport the state’s Airport of the Year for 2025. The award comes from the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Group.

This is the second time Show Low Regional Airport has been named the state’s Airport of the Year. The first was in 2007. It is one of 67 airports across Arizona that are publicly owned and publicly operated. 

This is the second time Colorado City Municipal Airport has been named the state’s Airport of the Year. The first was in 1992. It is one of 67 airports across Arizona that are publicly owned and publicly operated.

Did you hear the news? ADOT named the Cottonwood Municipal Airport as the 2022 Arizona Airport of the Year!

Move over, Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls. The Yuma International Airport has also scored a three-peat by winning Arizona Airport of the Year three times!

PHOENIX – Economic impact and advocacy for airport funding are among the reasons Prescott Regional Airport’s Ernest A. Love Field is the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Airport of the Year for 2020.

The airport has won the title before in 2014.

PHOENIX – Community outreach and growth are among the reasons Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport is the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Airport of the Year for 2019.

The airport has won the title twice before, and its last win, in 2012, underscores how rapidly it has grown. It was the nation’s 65th-busiest at the time; it’s now 32nd, with 288,000 takeoffs and departures a year.

Pinal Airpark was once known as an airport graveyard that stored old jets. Today, the Marana airport has been resurrected.

PHOENIX ‒ For many years, Pinal Airpark was an isolated facility in the middle of the desert between Phoenix and Tucson best known for the many mothballed jetliners stored there.

It served as a base for large aircraft overhauls. No public flights took place, and no one was allowed in under a long-standing lease with one tenant.

ADOT has named the Yuma International Airport as the 2015 Airport of the Year.

ADOT has named the Prescott Municipal Airport/Ernest A. Love Field as the 2014 Airport of the Year.

Lake Havasu City has long been recognized as one of Arizona’s premier spots for travel and tourism. The city’s airport is essential to the flourishing tourism industry, and is now being recognized for its superior service and accomplishments over the past year ...

This is a blog post about the 2012 award for Airport of the Year – an honor presented annually to an airport that accomplishes much in the areas of community relations, airport management, maintenance activities and innovative programs.

Airports may not be the first thing most people think of when it comes to ADOT … but the Arizona Department of Transportation actually plays an important role in aeronautics and the development of airports across the state. Just like automobiles, all aircraft based in Arizona must be registered with MVD. Those registration fees, along with flight property, aircraft dealer licensing and aviation fuel taxes – paid by pilots and aircraft owners – go toward the state aviation fund.