Brazoria County Airport
IATA: LJN – ICAO: KLBX – FAA: LBX
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Brazoria County
Serves		Angleton / Lake Jackson, Texas
Elevation AMSL		25 ft / 8 m
Coordinates		29°06′31″N 095°27′44″W / 29.10861°N 95.46222°W / 29.10861; -95.46222
Website		www.airport1.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
17/35	7,000	2,134	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			60,000
Based aircraft			92
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Brazoria County Airport (IATA: LJN, ICAO: KLBX, FAA LID: LBX) is a county-owned public-use airport located four miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Angleton and north of Lake Jackson, both cities in Brazoria County, Texas, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Brazoria County Airport is assigned LBX by the FAA and LJN by the IATA (which assigned LBX to Lubang in the Philippines).^[2][3]

Contents 1 Facilities and aircraft 2 Airline History 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Brazoria County Airport covers an area of 674 acres (273 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (17/35) measuring 7,000 x 100 ft (2,134 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2006, the airport had 60,000 aircraft operations, an average of 164 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi and 1% military.^{[citation needed]} There are 92 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, 7% jet and 9% helicopter.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Airline History

Brazoria county airport in the late 1970's and early 80's once was linked to the national airway grid with regularly scheduled airline service. Among some of the more unusual routes were Victoria, Texas and the Clear Lake City STOLport [1] served in between the regular schedules from Brazoria County to Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) as this airport was called prior to airline deregulation. In the 1980's the airport was moved from the older shorter runway facilities close to Lake Jackson's town center to an area just north of the city limits of Lake Jackson. It is to this original former airport, in which the largest commercial airliner to visit the area a National Airlines (NA) Boeing 727[2] was hijacked in the early years of the 1970's.

After the airport was moved to its present location, Metro Airlines occasionally briefly used Shorts 330 later to be supplanted by Twin Otters on "commuter" routes linking "Brazosport" to IAH. Other sorts of regional aircraft seen occasionally at LBX in scheduled airline serve were Royale Airlines Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirantes and Beechcraft Model 99s. Royale functioned as a feeder airline for Continental Airlines to IAH prior to its bankruptcy and the difficulties which small communities suffered affected by the post deregulation airline industry.

Other airlines which more recently are seen regularly at the Brazoria County KLBX, were Comairs CRJ Regional jets and Aerodynamics Inc. (ADI), Fokker F28s.[3] Both of these airlines had contracts doing scheduled corporate charters shuttling employees to Dow Chemicals Midland Michigan facilities.

Currently, Dow Chemical uses the services of Aerodynamics (ADI)- Dynajet and their European built Airbus 319 Airbus equipment for the corporate shuttle to Michigan.

At present, no regularly scheduled commercial passenger service is offered from this underused airfield.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Brazoria County Airport, official site
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KLBX
  • ASN accident history for LJN
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KLBX

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