Beaufort County Airport

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Beaufort Executive Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner County of Beaufort
Serves Lady's Island
Elevation  AMSL 9 ft / 3 m
Coordinates 32°24′44″N080°38′04″W / 32.41222°N 80.63444°W / 32.41222; -80.63444
Website www.beaufortcountyairport.com/...
Map
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ARW
Location of airport in South Carolina
Beaufort County Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
7/253,4341,047Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations18,000
Based aircraft36

Beaufort Executive Airport( IATA : BFT, ICAO : KARW, FAA LID : ARW, formerly 73J) is a county-owned, public-use airport in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. [1] The airport is located on Lady's Island, [2] 3 nautical miles (5.6 kilometres) southeast of the central business district of Beaufort, South Carolina. [1] It is also known as Frogmore Intranational Airport. [3]

Contents

This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. [4]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned ARW by the FAA [1] and BFT by the IATA [5] [6] (which assigned ARW to Arad Airport in Arad, Romania). [7] [8]

Beaufort is also known for hosting Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort ( ICAO : KNBC, FAA LID : NBC), located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Beaufort County Airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Beaufort Executive Airport covers an area of 110 acres (45 ha) at an elevation of 9 feet (2.7 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 7/25 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,434 feet (1,047 m) by 75 feet (23 m). [1]

For the 12-month period ending 3 July 2018, the airport had 18,000 aircraft operations, on average 49 per day: 97.4% general aviation and 2.6% air taxi. At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 81% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, and 11% helicopter. [1]

Cargo airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Planemaster for UPS Airlines Columbia (SC)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 FAA Airport Form 5010 for ARW PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 3 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Beaufort Executive Airport: Directions". Beaufort County.
  3. ↑ "South Carolina - Beaufort County Airports". www.carolana.com/.
  4. ↑ "2021–2025 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF, 5.32 MB). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. 30 September 2020.
  5. ↑ "IATA Airport Code Search (BFT: Beaufort Executive)". International Air Transport Association . Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Beaufort Executive Airport (IATA: BFT, ICAO: KARW, FAA: ARW)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "IATA Airport Code Search (ARW: Arad)". International Air Transport Association . Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "Arad Airport, Romania, Nepal (IATA: ARW, ICAO: LRAR)". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 20 November 2020.
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