Andrau Airpark

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Andrau Airpark
Summary
Airport typeGeneral Aviation
OperatorClosed
ServesHouston, Texas
Elevation  AMSL 80 ft / 24.38 m
Coordinates 29°43′00″N95°35′00″W / 29.71667°N 95.58333°W / 29.71667; -95.58333
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
16/344,7501,447.8 Concrete
11/293,000914.4 Concrete

Andrau Airpark( ICAO : KAAP) was a public use airport located in the Alief community of Houston, Texas, United States, formerly an unincorporated section of Harris County, from the late 1940s through 1998. The airport was southeast of the intersection of Old Westheimer Road (since renamed West Houston Center Boulevard) and Richmond Avenue. The airport closed in 1998 and as of 2008 is the Royal Oaks Country Club subdivision.

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Airport History

The first known photo of the area is from 1953. [1] The 700-acre (280 ha) tract of land that included the airport, which was one of the oldest private airfields in Greater Houston, was owned by descendants of the Andrau family. [2]

The airport served general aviation for west Houston, but a Douglas DC-3 and an A-26C Invader are known to have landed there. The airport had two runways, the longest at 4,750 feet, and a seaplane landing and takeoff pond on the east end of the airpark.[ citation needed ]

Bee Line, a small commuter air carrier based in the Houston area, operated scheduled passenger flights on the weekends with small twin prop aircraft during the mid-1970s between the airport and Lakeway Airpark near Lake Travis in central Texas. [3]

The airport was closed on December 23, 1998, when a Houston real estate firm paid Andrau Airpark Inc., the airport's owners, 53 million dollars for the land. [4] The tract went under contract to the Camden Property Trust. [2] The airport was quickly demolished and the Royal Oaks Country Club subdivision and a golf course replaced the field.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Andrau Airpark, Alief, TX". Archived from the original on 2004-05-14. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Cook, Lynn J. "Development plans ground Andrau airport" Houston Business Journal . Sunday December 27, 1998. Retrieved on March 8, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Bee Line".
  4. ↑ Bivins, Ralph. "How Camden got 100 west side acres for almost nothing." Houston Chronicle . Sunday May 30, 1999. Business 8. Retrieved on May 8, 2010.
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