Sedona Airport (SDX) Safety Profile: Incident History & Data

What happens most

By year

20261 (0 fatal)
20251 (0 fatal)
20211 (0 fatal)
20202 (0 fatal)
20194 (0 fatal)
20181 (0 fatal)
20171 (0 fatal)
20152 (0 fatal)
20144 (1 fatal)
20131 (0 fatal)
20122 (1 fatal)
20114 (0 fatal)
20102 (0 fatal)
20091 (0 fatal)
20083 (2 fatal)
19981 (0 fatal)
19891 (0 fatal)

By flight phase

Landing13
Other / unknown12
Approach2
Climb2
Maneuvering2
Takeoff1

Notable investigated occurrences

2014-07-20 — Johnathan P McGeary (4 fatalities) — 9.4 km
2012-07-26 — Beech B60, Patrick R Porter (3 fatalities) — 1.1 km
2008-11-13 (3 fatalities) — 9.5 km
2008-10-13 — ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY (1 fatalities) — 10.1 km
2026-03-27 — 0.0 km
2025-11-03 — ARGAEUS LLC — 1.9 km
2021-04-25 — GEPHART ALVIE G — 0.2 km
2020-07-05 — 1.7 km
2020-03-29 — Fly Eagle Sport — 0.0 km
2019-09-20 — 0.0 km
2019-06-05 — Red Rock Balloons — 11.2 km
2019-06-02 — 0.0 km

Runways

03/21: 5,132 ft, ASP, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 20.314 days/year
Thunderstorms: 65.591 days/year
Snow: 12.229 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 1.348% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0.038% of observations

Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.