Wharton Regional Airport
IATA: WHT ICAO: KARM FAA LID: ARM
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Wharton
Serves	Wharton, Texas, United States
Elevation AMSL	100 ft / 30 m
Coordinates	29°15′15″N 096°09′15″W / 29.25417°N 96.15417°W / 29.25417; -96.15417
Map
WHT Location of the airport in Texas
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14/32 5,000 1,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Aircraft operations (year ending 4/14/2023) 4,480
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Wharton Regional Airport (IATA: WHT, ICAO: KARM, FAA LID: ARM) is a public airport located five miles (8 km) southwest of the central business district of Wharton, a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. It is owned by the City of Wharton.^[1]

Many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA. However, this airport is assigned ARM by the FAA but has been assigned WHT from the IATA. ^[2] Note that ARM was assigned to Armidale Airport in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.^[3] The airport's former FAA identifier was 5R5.^[4]

Facilities and aircraft

Wharton Regional Airport covers an area of 124 acres (50 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (14/32) measuring 5,004 x 75 ft (1,525 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending April 14, 2023, the airport had 4,480 aircraft operations, an average of 86 per week: 98% general aviation and 2% military.^[1]

The airport is used by the South Texas Balloon Launch Team, an amateur radio balloon group based out of Houston, for free float balloon launches. The team launch BLT-27 on Saturday, August 20, 2019 at 10am. ^[5]