Victoria Regional Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | County of Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Victoria, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 115 ft / 35 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°51′09″N 096°55′07″W / 28.85250°N 96.91861°WCoordinates: 28°51′09″N 096°55′07″W / 28.85250°N 96.91861°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations | 45,627 |
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| Based aircraft | 39 |
Victoria Regional Airport (IATA: VCT, ICAO: KVCT, FAA LID: VCT) is a county owned, public use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) northeast of the central business district of Victoria, a city in Victoria County, Texas, United States. It is mostly used for military and general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline with this scheduled passenger service being subsidized by the federal Essential Air Service (EAS) program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 10,138 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2007, 8,415 enplanements in 2008, 5,625 in 2009, and 5,038 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008 (between 2,500 and 10,000 per year).
Foster Field began as a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) facility that was established in 1941 as an advanced single-engine flying school for fighter pilots. Originally known as Victoria Field, it was renamed in 1942 in memory of 1st Lt Arthur L. Foster, a United States Army Air Corps instructor killed in a crash at Brooks Field in 1925. Foster's son received his training and commission at the base in the spring of 1942.
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