Ellington Field
Ellington Airport is a public and military use airport in Harris County, Texas, United States. It is owned by the City of Houston's department of aviation, Houston Airport System and located 15 nmi southeast of downtown Houston.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport
- Also known as: “EFD”, “Ellington Airport”, “Ellington Field Airport”, “Ellington International Airport”, and “KEFD”
- Historically known as: “Ellington Air Force Base”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory and Grace Christian Academy.
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is an astronaut training facility and neutral buoyancy pool operated by NASA and located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility, near the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Grace Christian Academy
School
Grace Christian Academy is a private K–12 Christian school located in Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas. The independent Christian school is located on a 20-acre facility, with one building and 106,000 usable square feet, in the Pineloch neighborhood in Clear Lake City.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clear Lake and Golden Acres.
Clear Lake
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, CC0.
Clear Lake is a district of Houston. It is home to NASA's Johnson Space Center. The area's boating opportunities are considered second only to those of Miami. Fishing, swimming, hiking, and history are also popular activities in the area.
Golden Acres
Hamlet
Golden Acres is an area in Pasadena, Texas, United States that was formerly an unincorporated community in Harris County. Golden Acres is located southeast of Downtown Pasadena. The name comes from the developer's slogan, "a golden opportunity."… Golden Acres is situated 4½ miles north of Ellington Field.
Webster
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Webster is a city in the U.S. state of Texas located in Harris County, within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. Its population was 12,499 at the 2020 U.S. census.
Ellington Field
- Categories: international airport and transportation
- Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.60455° or 29° 36′ 16″ northLongitude
-95.15828° or 95° 9′ 30″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)Operator
Houston Airport SystemIATA airport code
EFDICAO airport code
KEFDOpen location code
76X6JR3R+RMOpenStreetMap ID
way 29483207OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
4688848Wikidata ID
Q841771
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Ellington Field” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ellington Field”
- Chinese: “埃林頓空軍基地”
- Chinese: “埃林頓菲爾德機場”
- Chinese: “埃林顿空军基地”
- Chinese: “埃林顿菲尔德机场”
- Chinese: “埃靈頓機場 (德克薩斯州)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار الينجتون الدولى”
- French: “aéroport d’Ellington”
- French: “Aéroport d’Ellington”
- German: “Ellington Airport”
- German: “Ellington Field”
- German: “KEFD”
- Indonesian: “EFD”
- Indonesian: “KEFD”
- Japanese: “エリントン空港”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بینالمللی الینگتون”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Ellington”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional Ellington”
- Russian: “Международный аэропорт Эллингтон”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи биналмилалӣ олингтун (тигзос)”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи биналмилалӣ олингтун”
- Urdu: “ایلنگٹن ایئر پورٹ”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Ellington”
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Localities in the Area
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