Wharton Regional Airport

Wharton Regional Airport
IATA: WHTICAO: KARMFAA LID: 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: WHTICAO: KARMFAA 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]

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]

It is also used by the South Texas Balloon Launch Team (an amateur radio balloon group based out of Houston) for free float balloon launches. The team is about to launch BLT-27 on Saturday, August 20 at 10am. Full info on all the BLTs can be found at http://www.w5acm.net and scroll down for the links to the BLT flights!

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