Airport type Public 17/35 3,700 Elevation 4 m | Elevation AMSL 12 ft / 4 m Code LRO Phone +1 843-767-7000 | |
Owner Charleston County Aviation Authority Serves Mount Pleasant, South Carolina Location 700 Faison Parkway Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 Address Faison Rd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29466, USA Similar East Cooper Medical, Beckner Glen Eric MD, Wando High School, Coastal Aviation | ||
Mount Pleasant Regional Airport (ICAO: KLRO, FAA LID: LRO, formerly 8S5), also known as Faison Field, is a public airport located 9 nmi (17 km) northeast of the central business district of Mount Pleasant, a town in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. It is owned by the Charleston County Aviation Authority. It was formerly the East Cooper Airport.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned LRO by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
Facilities and aircraft
Mount Pleasant Regional Airport covers an area of 300 acres (120 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (17/35) measuring 3,700 x 75 ft (1,128 x 23 m).
For the 12-month period ending September 21, 2006, the airport had 29,200 aircraft operations, an average of 80 per day: 96% general aviation, 3% air taxi and 1% military. There are 72 aircraft based at this airport: 90% single engine, 8% multi-engine and 1% helicopter.