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Lancaster County-McWhirter Field is a small public-use airport four nautical miles west of Lancaster, South Carolina, offering a single lit hard-surfaced runway suitable for general aviation training and touring flights. The field is uncontrolled but lies under Charlotte Approach's airspace, with a non-precision NDB approach available for instrument arrivals.
Lancaster County-McWhirter Field is a publicly owned general aviation airport serving the Lancaster, South Carolina area. It has no control tower, a single paved runway, and supports flight training, aircraft maintenance and light touring traffic, making it a straightforward VFR destination for visiting pilots.
The airport lies about four nautical miles west of Lancaster, South Carolina, on some 301 acres of land, within the wider airspace overseen by Charlotte Approach/Departure and Atlanta Center (ZTL). It is an uncontrolled aerodrome with no on-field control tower or FSS; NOTAM and flight-service support is tied to Anderson FSS.
The airport has one physical runway, 06/24, hard-surfaced and lit. Runway 24 has a landing length of 5,982 feet and runway 06 a length of 5,878 feet.
Charlotte Approach/Departure is available on 120.05 MHz. The common traffic advisory frequency and UNICOM is 122.725 MHz. A locator/NDB beacon identified LKR is sited on the airport and supports a non-precision NDB approach; a Ground Communication Outlet on 121.725 MHz can be used to reach Charlotte Approach from the ground (airport-data.com).
Traffic patterns for both runway 06 and runway 24 are flown to the left. There is no control tower, so arriving and departing traffic should make position calls on the CTAF and coordinate visually with other aircraft in the pattern (airport-data.com).
The airport is open to public use and has no operating control tower. It offers 100LL fuel, major airframe and powerplant repair services, hangar and tie-down storage, and flight instruction. Aircraft are required to be tied down when parked, and pilots should be alert for deer on and in the vicinity of the airfield (airport-data.com).
