La Porte Municipal Airport

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Location / Airway

La Porte Municipal Airport beacon & tower
Harris County, Texas
gps: 29.666847, -95.065045

Airway tower dismantled and moved to:

37XA Skydive Houston / Skylake Airport
Waller County, Texas
gps: 29.987820, -95.932992

Observations and Notes

In April 2006 Harvey Hartman contracted to dismantle and remove the old airway beacon at La Porte Municipal Airport. It was taken to the resident airpark where he lives and installed over a period of 3 years. See how he did it at: 37XA Skydive Houston / Skylake Airport

The La Porte Municipal Airport has a new airway beacon and tower as a part of their renovation project. The new tower and beacon are located at:
gps: 29.666832, -95.063162

Links

Skyvector T41 La Porte Municipal Airport

National Geodetic Survey Data Sheet AW1275 first mentions the beacon in the 1953 Station Recovery

HT_MOD - This is a Height Modernization Survey Station.
SACS- This is a Secondary Airport Control Station.
DESIGNATION - LA PORTE
STATE/COUNTY- TX/HARRIS
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - LA PORTE (1982)

	The Eagle (Bryan, Texas) 24 Feb 1949, Thu • Page 1
	The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Texas) 08 Mar 1950, Wed • Page 1
	The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Texas) 11 Jul 1950, Tue • Page 1
	The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Texas) 27 Sep 1987, Sun • Page 7

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