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Kerrville Municipal Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Serves
  
Kerrville, Texas

3/21
  
3,592

Elevation
  
91 m

Owner
  
City of Kerrville

Elevation AMSL
  
1,617 ft / 493 m

Code
  
ERV

Phone
  
+1 830-896-9399

Kerrville Municipal Airport

Website
  
www.KerrvilleAirport.com

Address
  
1877 Airport Loop, Kerrville, TX 78028, USA

Similar
  
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Kerrville Municipal Airport (IATA: ERV, ICAO: KERV, FAA LID: ERV) (Louis Schreiner Field) is six miles southeast of Kerrville, in Kerr County, Texas. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility.

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History

The airport opened in February 1943 as Louis Schreiner Field and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base. At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the military and turned over to the local government for civil use.

Trans-Texas DC-3s stopped there until 1959-60.

Facilities

Kerrville Municipal Airport covers 528 acres (214 ha) at an elevation of 1,617 feet (493 m). It has two asphalt runways: 12/30 is 6,000 by 100 feet (1,829 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 3,592 by 60 feet (1,095 x 18 m).

In the year ending August 5, 2011 the airport had 59,800 general aviation operations, average 163 per day. 149 aircraft were then based at the airport: 86% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 3% jet, 5% helicopter, and 1% glider.

References

Kerrville Municipal Airport Wikipedia