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]
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.