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Victoria Regional Airport 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. In the fall of 1966, Trans Texas was operating five departures a day with DC 3 aircraft with three nonstops to Houston Hobby and two nonstops to San Antonio with direct, no change of plane DC 3 service being flown from Victoria to Dallas Love Field (DAL), Midland/Odessa, San Angelo, TX, Jackson, MS, Lake Charles, LA, Alexandria, LA, Fort Polk, LA, Lufkin, TX and Longview, TX. By August 1968, TTa was operating all flights into Victoria with 40 seat Convair 600 turboprops with nonstop service to Houston Hobby (HOU), Harlingen and McAllen as well as direct, no change of plane international service to Tampico and Veracruz in Mexico. Trans Texas then changed its name to Texas International which in 1970 was flying 15 seat Beechcraft 99 commuter turboprops nonstop to Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH). Texas International then ceased all flights into Victoria with its service being replaced by Metro Airlines operating de Havilland Canada DHC 6 Twin Otter commuter turboprops to Houston Intercontinental during the 1970s and early 1980s with up to seven nonstop flights a day. Tejas Airlines, a commuter air carrier based in San Antonio, was also serving the airport in 1979. By the mid 1980s, Metro Airlines had entered into a code sharing agreement with Eastern Air Lines in order to provide passenger feed for Eastern at Houston Intercontinental and was serving Victoria as Eastern Express with up to seven flights a day to IAH operated with Twin Otter aircraft. By the late 1980s, Continental Airlines was operating a hub at Houston Intercontinental with service into Victoria being flown by Britt Airways operating as Continental Express with five flights every weekday to IAH being operated with 30 seat Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia propjets. Continental Express would continue to serve the airport during the 1990s and by the end of the decade was operating 19 seat Beechcraft 1900 commuter turboprops on the route to IAH in addition to the Embraer Brasilia aircraft. By 2007, Colgan Air flying as Continental Connection was operating two flights a day to IAH with 34 seat Saab 340B turboprops. Continental was eventually merged into United Airlines and code sharing flights to Houston Intercontinental airport were discontinued. Sun Air Express operated scheduled passenger service to Houston Intercontinental via a two year federal Essential Air Service (EAS) contract; however, this commuter air carrier then ceased all service between the airport and IAH on October 31, 2014. From December, 2014, through October, 2018, air service was provided by Corporate Flight Management dba Contour Aviation. Contour flew Jetstream 31 aircraft on routes to Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Houston, Texas. Boutique Air was awarded the Essential Air Service contract for Victoria and began operations in late 2018. Service was operated on the twin engine Beechcraft King Air 350. An additional flight was added in 2019 to Dallas/Fort Worth to allow business travelers to make day trips. Due to reliability issues with the King Air, Boutique Air requested and was granted dual aircraft authorization from the Department of Transportation to supplement the route with the highly reliable Pilatus PC 12. Service ended by November, 2020 and was replaced by the current provider, SkyWest Airlines dba as United Express.

United Express, operated by SkyWest Airlines, currently serves Houston with two flights daily.

On January 18, 1972, a Learjet 25 operated by the Tandy Corporation struck the ground and a power pole 1.7 nmi short of runway 12 during a non precision approach to VCT. All 9 occupants (2 crew, 9 passengers) died. On December 9, 2019, a Martinaire Cessna 208 Caravan crashed 11km NE of VCT, impacting terrain because of spatial disorientation and a faulty attitude and horizontal situation indicator. The sole occupant, the pilot, was killed.

Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST 2005 20454) from the U. S. Department of Transportation:
Order 2005 5 2 (May 9, 2005): selecting Colgan Air, Inc., d/b/a Continental Connection, to provide essential air service at Victoria, Texas, for a two year period at a subsidy rate of $510,185 annually. Order 2007 4 8 (April 6, 2007): selecting Colgan Air, Inc., d/b/a Continental Connection, to continue providing essential air service (EAS) at Victoria consisting of 12 weekly nonstop round trips to Houston with 34 seat Saab 340B turboprop aircraft for an annual subsidy of $610,049. Order 2009 6 10 (June 11, 2009): re selecting Colgan Air, Inc., d/b/a Continental Connection, to continue providing subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Victoria, TX, for the two year period beginning July 1, 2009, at the annual subsidy rate of $1,593,922. Order 2011 5 7 (May 5, 2011): re selecting Colgan Air, Inc., operating as Continental Connection, to provide essential air service (EAS) at Victoria, Texas, using 34 seat Saab 340 aircraft for a two year period beginning July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2013 for an annual subsidy of $1,856,692. Ninety Day Notice (March 8, 2012): from Colgan Airlines, Inc. of termination of Essential Air Service at Victoria, Texas
Order 2012 3 14 (March 23, 2012: prohibits Colgan Airlines, Inc. d/b/a United Airlines Express, from terminating service at Altoona and Johnstown, PA; Victoria, TX; Staunton, VA; and Beckley, Clarksburg/Fairmont, and Morgantown, WV, for 30 days beyond the end of the 90 day notice period, i. e. July 8, 2012. We are also requesting proposals by April 25, 2012, from air carriers interested in providing replacement Essential Air Service (“EAS”) at Victoria, TX; and Staunton, VA, for a new term, with or without subsidy.