KEFD is the ICAO code for Ellington Airport (IATA EFD), located in Houston, TX.
Ellington Airport (KEFD) is a medium airport in Houston, TX. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KEFD or IATA code EFD. It sits in North America.
Ellington Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 9,001-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.
The longest runway measures 9,001 ft (2,744 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.
Ellington Airport sits near sea level at 32 ft.
Local operations run on America/Chicago. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.
SkyAccess currently tracks 323 departing and 327 arriving private-jet legs at KEFD across the next six months of operator inventory. 4 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KEFD are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.