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Baytown Airport: Baytown: HPY KHPY HPY 4,334 RWJ Airpark: Beach City, Texas – – 54T 5,035 Ward Airpark: Beasley – – 5T0 3,110 Covey Trails Airport: Fulshear – – X09 3,352 Dry Creek Airport Cypress, Texas – – TS07 3,580 Houston Executive Airport: Brookshire, Texas – KTME TME 6,610 Dan Jones International Airport: Tomball ...
The site was acquired by the city of Houston and was named Houston Municipal Airport in 1937. [9] The airport was renamed Howard R. Hughes Airport in 1938. Howard Hughes was responsible for several improvements to the airport, including its first control tower, built in 1938. [ 9 ]
In April 1997, Houston City Council unanimously voted to rename the airport George Bush Intercontinental Airport/Houston, after George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. [4] [11] The name change took effect on May 2, 1997. [12]
This list of airports in Texas (a U.S. state) is grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Ellington Airport [1] [2] (IATA: EFD, ICAO: KEFD, FAA LID: EFD) is a public and military use airport in Harris County, Texas, United States. [1] It is owned by the City of Houston's department of aviation, Houston Airport System and located 15 nmi (17 mi; 28 km) southeast of downtown Houston . [ 1 ]
West Houston Airport (IATA: IWS, ICAO: KIWS, FAA LID: IWS) is a privately owned, public use airport in Harris County, Texas, [1] 15 miles west of Downtown Houston [1] in the Greater Katy area. It opened in 1962 and was known as Lakeside Airport until the early 1980s [ 2 ] due to its location near the edge of Addicks reservoir .
Houston Airport System Administration Building at 16930 JFK Boulevard, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Houston Airport System (HAS) is a department of the City of Houston, Texas, United States that manages city airports. Its administrative offices are on the property of George Bush Intercontinental Airport. [1] [2] It operates Bush ...
As it expanded, the City of Houston forced those airports to close. The former Sam Houston Airport was annexed as part of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) and became the Westbury area. Hull decided to develop a regional airport more distant from Houston but to serve the area. In 1952, Hull landed his biplane in a field near Sugar ...