Mount Pleasant Regional Airport (South Carolina)

Mount Pleasant Regional Airport Faison Field
IATA: none ICAO: KLRO FAA LID: LRO
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Charleston County Aviation Authority
Serves	Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Location	700 Faison Parkway Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
Elevation AMSL	12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	32°53′52″N 79°46′58″W / 32.89778°N 79.78278°W / 32.89778; -79.78278
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 17/35 3,700 1,128 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Aircraft operations 18,250 Based aircraft 54
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

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.^[1] 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 300 acres (120 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (17/35) measuring 3,700 x 75 ft (1,128 x 23 m).^[1]

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.^[1]

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• FAA Terminal Procedures for LRO, effective November 28, 2024
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for LRO
  • AirNav airport information for LRO
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for LRO