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Laurens County Airport (KLUX) is a small, county-owned public-use airfield situated about three nautical miles east of Laurens, South Carolina. It offers a single hard-surfaced, lit runway and operates without an air traffic control tower, making it a straightforward general-aviation destination for visiting VFR pilots.
Laurens County Airport is a public-use general aviation field owned by Laurens County, South Carolina. It is a modest facility with a single runway and no control tower, historically supporting light single-engine traffic and local flying activity. For a simulator pilot, it offers an uncomplicated rural approach and landing exercise in the South Carolina Piedmont, with straightforward radio procedures and no instrument landing system to contend with.
The airport lies three nautical miles east of the central business district of Laurens, South Carolina. It sits in uncontrolled airspace typical of small rural airfields in the region, with Greer Approach/Departure providing radar advisory service in the surrounding area.
The airport has a single physical runway, 08/26, with a hard surface and runway lighting. The 08 threshold measures 4,044 feet and the 26 threshold 4,043 feet, effectively a single strip just over 4,000 feet in length. There is no ILS at the field.
Pilots should use the common traffic advisory frequency and unicom on 122.8 MHz. Greer Approach/Departure can be contacted on 120.6 MHz for arrival, departure, and transit advisories. There is no instrument landing system published for the field.
There is no control tower at Laurens County Airport, so arriving and departing traffic should self-announce on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz and follow standard traffic pattern procedures for an uncontrolled field.
The airport is located east of the town of Laurens, South Carolina, off Torrington Road, providing a useful visual reference for pilots approaching from the town centre.
Laurens County Airport was formerly designated 34A before receiving its current FAA identifier, LUX, and ICAO code, KLUX. It is a county-owned public airport that has long served general aviation traffic in the area. Federal Aviation Administration data for the twelve months ending May 2009 recorded 5,500 aircraft operations, an average of fifteen per day, of which 94 percent were general aviation, 3 percent air taxi, and 3 percent military; at that time thirteen aircraft, all single-engine, were based at the field.
The airport continues to operate as a county-owned public-use general aviation field, primarily supporting light single-engine aircraft based locally. There is no control tower, and pilots operate under standard uncontrolled-field procedures using the published CTAF/UNICOM frequency.
