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Airport

Wharton Regional Airport

IATA: WHT
ICAO: KARM
FAA LID: ARM

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

City of Wharton

Serves

Wharton, Texas, United States

Elevation AMSL

100 ft / 30 m

Coordinates

29°15′15″N 096°09′15″W / 29.25417°N 96.15417°W / 29.25417; -96.15417

Map

WHTLocation of the airport in Texas

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	5,000	1,524	Asphalt

Statistics (2023)

Aircraft operations (year ending 4/14/2023)	4,480

Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Wharton Regional Airport (IATA: WHT, ICAO: KARM, FAA 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.

Many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA. However, this airport is assigned ARM by the FAA but has been assigned WHT from the IATA. Note that ARM was assigned to Armidale Airport in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The airport's former FAA identifier was 5R5.

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 April 14, 2023, the airport had 4,480 aircraft operations, an average of 86 per week: 98% general aviation and 2% military.

The airport is used by the South Texas Balloon Launch Team, an amateur radio balloon group based out of Houston, for free float balloon launches. The team launch BLT-27 on Saturday, August 20, 2019 at 10am.