Pearland Regional Airport

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Coordinates: 29°31′17″N 095°14′32″W / 29.52139, -95.24222

Pearland Regional Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KLVJ – FAA: LVJ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Clover Acquisition Corp.
Serves		Houston, Texas
Location		Pearland, Texas
Elevation AMSL		44 ft / 13 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	4,313	1,315	Asphalt
Statistics (2000)
Aircraft operations			87,125
Based aircraft			175
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Pearland Regional Airport (ICAO: KLVJ, FAA LID: LVJ) is a public-use general aviation airport located in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas, United States south of the city limits of Pearland and 17 miles (27 km) south of the central business district of Houston. It is privately owned by the Clover Acquisition Corporation^[1] and was formerly known as Clover Field.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Pearland Regional Airport is assigned LVJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Pearland Regional Airport covers an area of 450 acres (182 ha) which contains one runway designated 14/32 with a 4,313 x 75 ft. (1,315 x 23 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending May 30, 2000, the airport had 87,125 aircraft operations, an average of 238 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% air taxi. At that time there were 175 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single-engine, 2% multi-engine and 4% helicopter.^[1]