Airport of the Year

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May 16, 2024 | News/Press Release
ADOT award cites planning for new runway, facility updates
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. 
September 22, 2023 | News/Press Release
ADOT award acknowledges community engagement, facility upgrades
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.
January 3, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Julian Lopez / ADOT Communications
Did you hear the news? ADOT named the Cottonwood Municipal Airport as the 2022 Arizona Airport of the Year!
May 25, 2021 | Blog Articles
By Laurie Merrill / ADOT Communications

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! 

November 16, 2020 | News/Press Release

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.

June 27, 2019 | News/Press Release

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.

May 24, 2016 | Blog Articles

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

May 6, 2016 | News/Press Release

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.

May 12, 2015 | Blog Articles

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

July 15, 2014 | Blog Articles

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

April 22, 2013 | Blog Articles

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 ...

June 5, 2012 | Blog Articles

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.

July 11, 2011 | Blog Articles

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.