Lancaster County Airport
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Lancaster County Airport (Template:Comma separated entries), also known as McWhirter Field, is a county-owned, public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) west of the central business district of Lancaster, in Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States.[1]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned LKR by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[2] (which assigned LKR to Las Khoreh in Somalia[3]).
Facilities and aircraft
Lancaster County Airport covers an area of Script error: No such module "convert". at an elevation of 486 feet (148 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,004 by 100 feet (1,830 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending July 22, 2009, the airport had 23,850 aircraft operations, an average of 65 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi, and 1% military. At that time there were 49 single-engine aircraft based at this airport.[1]
Lancaster County Airport is operated by Lancaster Aviation and provides fuel, maintenance and a terminal facility.
See also
References
External links
- Aerial photo as of 20 February 1994 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for LKR, effective Error: Invalid time.
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for LKR
- AirNav airport information for KLKR
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures