Houston Southwest Airport

Airport in Arcola, Texas

AXH

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AXH

AXH (the United States)

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Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	5,002	1,525	Asphalt

Statistics (2023)

Aircraft operations (year ending 4/11/2023)	42,624
Based aircraft	120

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]

Facilities and aircraft

Houston-Southwest Airport covers an area of 165 acres (67 ha) which contains one runway designated 9/27 with a 5,002 x 100 ft (1,525 x 30 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending April 11, 2023, the airport had 42,624 aircraft operations, an average of 117 per day: 93% general aviation, 7% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 120 aircraft based at this airport: 102 single-engine, 13 multi-engine, 2 jet and 3 helicopter.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Houston Southwest Airport, official site
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d FAA Airport Form 5010 for AXH PDF, effective 2023-08-10
^ Great Circle Mapper: KAXH - Houston, Texas (Houston Southwest Airport)

External links

Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for AXH
- AirNav airport information for AXH
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for AXH

Houston area airports

As of 2019^[update] only Bush and Hobby have commercial airline service. Ellington and Sugar Land no longer have airline service.

Houston Airport System