Houston Southwest Airport

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Coordinates: 29°30′22″N 095°28′37″W / 29.50611, -95.47694

Houston Southwest Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KAXH – FAA: AXH
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		James Griffith, Jr.
Serves		Houston, Texas
Location		Arcola, Texas
Elevation AMSL		68 ft / 21 m
Website		www.HoustonAirport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	5,003	1,525	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			46,381
Based aircraft			151
Sources: airport web site^[1] and FAA^[2]

Houston Southwest Airport^[1] or Houston-Southwest Airport^[2] (ICAO: KAXH, FAA LID: AXH) is a public-use airport located in Arcola, a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of the central business district of Houston. It is privately owned by James Griffith, Jr.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Houston Southwest Airport is assigned AXH by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Houston-Southwest Airport covers an area of 165 acres (67 ha) which contains one runway designated 9/27 with a 5,003 x 100 ft. (1,525 x 30 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending January 27, 2006, the airport had 46,381 aircraft operations, an average of 127 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% military and <1% air taxi. At that time there were 151 aircraft based at this airport: 74% single-engine and 26% multi-engine.^[2]