Beaufort County Airport
| Beaufort County Airport | |||||||||||
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| IATA: BFT – ICAO: KARW – FAA LID: ARW | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | County of Beaufort | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lady's Island | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 9 ft / 3 m | ||||||||||
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| Website | www.bcgov.net/... | ||||||||||
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Beaufort County 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] three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Beaufort, South Carolina.[1] It is also known as Frogmore Island Airport or Frogmore Intranational Airport.[3]
This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, 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]
Contents
Facilities and aircraft
Beaufort County Airport covers an area of 110 acres (45 ha) at an elevation of 9 feet (3 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 7/25 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,434 by 75 feet (1,047 x 23 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending September 27, 2012, the airport had 36,000 aircraft operations, on average 98 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% air taxi. At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 75% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, and 11% helicopter.[1]
Airlines and Destinations
There is currently no scheduled passenger service to Beaufort County.
Cargo Airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Martinaire for UPS Airlines | Columbia(SC) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 FAA Airport Master Record for ARW (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective November 15, 2012.
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External links
- Beaufort County Airport at Beaufort County website
- Aerial photo as of January 1994 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for ARW, effective July 11, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for ARW
- AirNav airport information for KARW
- ASN accident history for BFT
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
