Houston Southwest Airport


Houston Southwest Airport or Houston-Southwest Airport is a public-use airport located in Arcola, a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, 15 miles southwest of the central business district of Houston. It is privately owned by James Griffith, Jr.
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.

Facilities and aircraft

Houston-Southwest Airport covers an area of which contains one runway designated 9/27 with a 5,003 x 100 ft 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.