Beauregard Regional Airport – DeRidder LA

City:
DeRidder, LA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Completed:
1935

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

According to the Beauregard Tourist Commission, “This project in a stump littered field provided employment for about 400 men, who worked to clear what had once been a densely wooded region. They constructed two earthen runways on 160 acres of land leased from the owner.”

Source notes

Beauregard Tourist Commission website

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on July 7, 2015.

Location Info


1220 East 1st Street
DeRidder, Louisiana 70634
Beauregard Parish County

Coordinates: 30.846933, -93.259066

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