Weiser Air Park

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Weiser Air Park
IATA: none – ICAO: KEYQ – FAA: EYQ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Cecil & Robert Weiser
Serves		Houston, Texas
Location		Cypress, Texas
Elevation AMSL		137 ft / 42 m
Coordinates		29°56′07″N 095°38′23″W / 29.93528, -95.63972
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) is a privately-owned, public-use airport located on the Northwest Freeway (U.S. Highway 290) in Cypress, an unincorporated area of Harris County, Texas, United States.^[2] The airport is 11 nautical miles (20 km) northwest of the central business district of Houston^[1]

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

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Weiser Air Park covers an area of 98 acres (40 ha) at an elevation of 137 feet (42 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 9/27 has a 3,455 x 40 ft (1,053 x 12 m) asphalt pavement and 16/34 has a 2,000 x 33 ft (610 x 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]