Lancaster County Airport
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Lancaster County Airport McWhirter Field | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Lancaster County | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lancaster, South Carolina | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 486 ft / 148 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°43′22″N 080°51′17″W / 34.72278°N 80.85472°W | ||||||||||
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  LKR Location of airport in South Carolina  LKR LKR (the United States) | |||||||||||
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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.[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]).
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).[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.