Mount Pleasant Regional Airport (South Carolina) Explained

Mount Pleasant Regional Airport
Nativename:Faison Field
Icao:KLRO
Faa:LRO
Type:Public
Owner:Charleston County Aviation Authority
City-Served:Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Location:700 Faison Parkway Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
Elevation-F:12
Elevation-M:4
Coordinates:32.8978°N -79.7828°W
R1-Number:17/35
R1-Length-F:3,700
R1-Length-M:1,128
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2019
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:18,250
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:54
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, also known as Faison Field, is a public airport located 9nmi 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.[2]

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.[3]

Facilities and Aircraft

Mount Pleasant Regional Airport covers an area of 300acres 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 November 15, 2019, the airport had 18,250 aircraft operations, an average of 50 per day: 94% general aviation, 5% air taxi and 1% military. There are 54 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single engine and 6% multi-engine.

See also

Notes and References

  1. , effective 2007-07-05
  2. Web site: Mount Pleasant to annex East Cooper Airport. Charleston Business Journal. March 21, 2005.
  3. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KLRO Great Circle Mapper: KLRO - Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (Mount Pleasant Regional Airport)