Dalhart Municipal Airport (original) (raw)

Airport in near Dalhart, Texas

Dalhart Municipal Airport
1996 USGS Photo
IATA: DHTICAO: KDHTFAA LID: DHT
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Dalhart
Location Hartley County, near Dalhart, Texas
Elevation AMSL 3,991 ft / 1,216 m
Coordinates 36°01′21″N 102°32′50″W / 36.02250°N 102.54722°W / 36.02250; -102.54722
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 3/21 5,440 1,658 Asphalt 17/35 6,400 1,951 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Aircraft operations (year ending 9/16/2021)7,650Based aircraft40
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Dalhart Municipal Airport (IATA: DHT, ICAO: KDHT, FAA LID: DHT) is in unincorporated Hartley County, Texas,[2] three miles (5 km) southwest of Dalhart, Texas,[1] a city straddling the border of Dallam and Hartley counties in the northwest corner of the Texas Panhandle.[3]

The airport sees no airlines.

The airport covers 1,206 acres (488 ha) and has two asphalt runways: 3/21 is 5,440 x 75 ft (1,658 x 23 m) and 17/35 is 6,400 x 75 ft (1,951 x 23 m).[1]

In the year ending September 16, 2021, the airport had 7,650 aircraft operations, average 21 per day: 65% local general aviation, 33% transient general aviation, and 2% military. 40 aircraft were based at this airport: 33 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, 1 helicopter, and 1 glider.[1]

The airport was built by the Army and opened in May 1942 as Dalhart Army Airfield. Initially assigned to Army Air Forces Glider command, while under construction the command's temporary headquarters operated from a tent city in Amarillo.[4]

Dalhart AAF closed in December 1945; the property went to the city. Several remaining buildings have been used as the Dalhart municipal airport.[4]

  1. ^ a b c d FAA Airport Form 5010 for DHT PDF, effective 2023-08-10
  2. ^ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Hartley County, TX" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 4 (PDF p. 5/28). Retrieved 2022-08-15. Dalhart Municipal Arprt
  3. ^ "City of Dalhart, Texas". Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
  4. ^ a b Dalhart Army Airfield Historical Marker