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Lancaster County Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

6/24
  
6,004

1,830
  
Asphalt

Code
  
LKR

Phone
  
+1 803-285-1565

Elevation AMSL
  
486 ft / 148 m

6,004
  
1,830

Address
  
Lancaster, SC 29720, USA

Elevation
  
148 m

Serves
  
Lancaster, South Carolina

Owner
  
Lancaster County, South Carolina

Similar
  
Lancaster County ‑MC Whirt, Lancaster County Clerk of C, Lancaster News, Lancaster County Assessor, See Lancaster

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Lancaster County Airport (ICAO: KLKR, FAA LID: LKR), 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.

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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 (which assigned LKR to Las Khoreh in Somalia).

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Facilities and aircraft

Lancaster County Airport covers an area of 301 acres (122 ha) 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).

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.

Lancaster County Airport is operated by Lancaster Aviation and provides fuel, maintenance and a terminal facility.

References

Lancaster County Airport Wikipedia