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Weiser Air Park

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Weiser Air Park

IATA: none

ICAO: ~~KEYQ~~

FAA LID: ~~EYQ~~

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

Cecil & Robert Weiser

Serves

Houston, Texas

Location

Harris County, Texas

Closed

November 3, 2019

Elevation AMSL

137 ft / 42 m

Coordinates

29°56′07″N 095°38′23″W / 29.93528°N 95.63972°W

Website

www.WeiserAirpark.com

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	3,455	1,053	Asphalt
16/34	2,000	610	Turf

Statistics (2006)

Aircraft operations	38,020
Based aircraft	75

Source: FAA^[1] and airport web site^[2]

Weiser Air Park ~~(ICAO: KEYQ, FAA LID: EYQ)~~ was a privately owned, public-use airport located on the Northwest Freeway (U.S. Highway 290) in Cypress, an unincorporated areaofHarris County, Texas, United States.^[2] The airport was 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) northwest of the central business districtofHouston^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Weiser Air Park was assigned EYQ by the FAA but had no designation from the IATA.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft[edit]

Weiser Air Park covered an area of 102 acres (41 ha) at an elevation of 137 ft (42 m) above mean sea level. It had two runways: 9/27 has a 3,455 ft × 40 ft (1,053 m × 12 m) asphalt pavement and 16/34 has a 2,000 ft × 33 ft (610 m × 10 m) turf surface.^[1]

For the 12-month period ending March 3, 2006, the airport had 38,020 aircraft operations, an average of 104 per day: 99.9% general aviation and 0.1% air taxi. At that time there were 75 aircraft based at this airport: 93% single-engine and 7% multi-engine.^[1]

History[edit]

The Jackson Airport grass strip was purchased by Cecil Weiser in 1951, and renamed Weiser Airpark in 1963. The runway was paved in 1980. Cecil died in Nov. 2017, followed by the sale of the 102 acres.^[4]