Pearland Regional Airport is in

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, near

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, south of

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. It was formerly Clover Field. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and IATA, but Pearland Regional Airport is LVJ to the FAA and has no IATA code. It was in the Pearland city limits from November 27, 2017, until March 26, 2018.

Facilities

The airport covers ; its single runway, 14/32, is 4,313 x 75 ft (1315 x 23 m) concrete. In the year ending May 30, 2000 the airport had 87,125 aircraft operations, average 238 per day: 99.7%

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and 0.3%

air taxi An air taxi is a small commercial aircraft that makes short flights on demand. In 2001 air taxi operations were promoted in the United States by a NASA and aerospace industry study on the potential Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) ...

. 175 aircraft were then based at the airport: 94% single-engine, 2% multi-engine and 4%

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History

The airport opened in 1950 and is owned by Clover Acquisition Corporation. In April 2010 a small single-engine plane took off from Pearland Regional Airport and crashed shortly thereafter in Friendswood, about a mile south of the airport. The pilot was killed. The land with the airport, "Area L", is an

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; it was annexed by the City of Pearland on November 27, 2017. However, in March 2018 the Pearland city council voted to deannex the territory. It was de-annexed effective March 26, 2018.

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