Brazoria County Airport

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Brazoria County Airport
IATA: LJN – ICAO: KLBX – FAA: LBX
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Brazoria County
Serves		Angleton / Lake Jackson, Texas
Elevation AMSL		25 ft / 8 m
Coordinates		29°06′31″N 095°27′44″W / 29.10861, -95.46222
Website		www.airport1.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
17/35	7,000	2,134	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			60,000
Based aircraft			92
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Brazoria County Airport (IATA: LJN, ICAO: KLBX, FAA LID: LBX) is a county-owned public-use airport located four miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Angleton and north of Lake Jackson, both cities in Brazoria County, Texas, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Brazoria County Airport is assigned LBX by the FAA and LJN by the IATA (which assigned LBX to Lubang in the Philippines).^[2]^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Brazoria County Airport covers an area of 674 acres (273 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (17/35) measuring 7,000 x 100 ft. (2,134 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2006, the airport had 60,000 aircraft operations, an average of 164 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi and 1% military.^{[citation needed]} There are 92 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, 7% jet and 9% helicopter.^{[citation needed]}