La Porte Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use
airport
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located three miles (5 km) northwest of the
central business district
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of
La Porte, a city in
Harris County,
Texas
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,
United States
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.
Facilities and aircraft
La Porte Municipal Airport covers an area of which contains two
asphalt
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* Bitumen, also known as "liquid asphalt cement" or simply "asphalt", a viscous form of petroleum mainly used as a binder in asphalt concrete
* Asphalt concrete, a mixture of bitumen with coarse and fine aggregates, u ...
paved
runway
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s: 12/30 measuring 4,165 x 75 ft (1,269 x 23 m) and 5/23 measuring 2,998 x 75 ft (914 x 23 m).
For the 12-month period ending April 5, 2023, the airport had 29,050
general aviation
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aircraft operations, an average of 80 per day. At that time there were 40 aircraft based at the airport: 36 single-engine, and 4 multi-engine.
Accidents and incidents
*On July 15, 2018, two people were killed when a
homebuilt
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Kolb Twinstar III crashed into a pipeline easement 300 yards from the end of the runway.
See also
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List of airports in Texas
This list of airports in Texas (a U.S. state) is grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that wer ...
References
External links
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Texas DOT
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web site
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Airports in Harris County, Texas
Galveston Bay Area
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