Houston County Airport is a public airport

Airport

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 located three miles (5 km) southeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Crockett

Crockett, Texas

Crockett is a city in Houston County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 7,141. It is the county seat of Houston County.- History :...

, in Houston County

Houston County, Texas

Houston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population was 23,185. Its county seat is Crockett. Houston County is named for Samuel Houston, a president of the Republic of Texas and Governor of Texas...

, Texas

Texas

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, United States

United States

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. It is owned by Houston County.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.-ICAO...

 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, Houston County Airport is assigned DKR by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned DKR to Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport

Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport

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 in Dakar

Dakar

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, Senegal

Senegal

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).

Facilities and aircraft

Houston County Airport covers an area of 55 acres (22.3 ha) which contains one Asphalt

Asphalt

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 paved runway

Runway

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, 2/20, measuring 4,000 x 75 ft (1,219 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending July 25, 2005, the airport had 6,600 aircraft operations, 100% of which were general aviation

General aviation

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