Wharton Regional Airport

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Coordinates: 29°15′15″N 096°09′16″W / 29.25417, -96.15444

Wharton Regional Airport
IATA: WHT – ICAO: KARM – FAA: ARM
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Wharton
Serves Wharton, Texas
Elevation AMSL 100 ft / 30 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14/32 5,004 1,525 Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 11,800
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Wharton Regional Airport (IATA: WHT, ICAO: KARM, FAA LID: ARM) is a public airport located five miles (8 km) southwest of the central business district of Wharton, a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. It is owned by the City of Wharton.[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Wharton Regional is assigned ARM by the FAA and WHT by the IATA[2] (which assigned ARM to Armidale Airport in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia).[3] The airport's former FAA indentifier was 5R5.[4]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Wharton Regional Airport covers an area of 124 acres (50 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (14/32) measuring 5,004 x 75 ft. (1,525 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending July 28, 2005, the airport had 11,800 aircraft operations, an average of 32 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for ARM (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
  2. ^ WHT / KARM - Wharton Regional Airport - Wharton, Texas at Great Circle Mapper
  3. ^ ARM / YARM - Armidale, New South Wales, Australia at Great Circle Mapper
  4. ^ KARM - Wharton Regional Airport - Wharton, Texas at AirNav.com

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