Suburban Airport

Suburban Airport is a public-use airport located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States, two miles (3 km) southeast of the central business district of Laurel. This airport is privately owned by Suburban Air Park LLC.Facilities and aircraftSuburban Airport covers an area of 52acre which contains one paved runway (3/21) measuring 2324x.For 12-month period ending April 24, 2007, the airport had 20,400 aircraft operations, an average of 55 per day, 100% of which were general aviation. There are 66 aircraft based at this airport, including 65 single engine airplanes and 1 helicopter. A combination of grass, paved-pad, ramp, owner-maintained fabric hangars, and steel hangars are available for aircraft to base from. The airport hosts homebuilt experimental aircraft, and has been the primary construction site of several aircraft past and present.HistorySuburban airport lies on ground once owned by the Snowden Family. The family manor "Birmingham" was built in 1690, and sat adjacent to the runway on what is now the Northbound lanes of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway. The Snowden family cemetery sits just to the east of the runway, within the traffic pattern. This historic location was the home of the first Iron production in Maryland, Patuxent Iron Works. Just to the west of the airport is a later Snowden family manor, Montpelier.