Berkeley County Airport

Berkeley County Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KMKS – FAA LID: MKS
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner County of Berkeley
Serves Moncks Corner, South Carolina
Elevation AMSL 73 ft / 22 m
Coordinates 33°11′08″N 080°02′10″W / 33.18556°N 80.03611°W / 33.18556; -80.03611
Website berkeleycountysc.gov/...
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
5/23 4,351 1,326 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft operations 29,550
Based aircraft 45

Berkeley County Airport (ICAO: KMKS, FAA LID: MKS, formerly 50J) is a county-owned public-use airport in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. It is located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Moncks Corner, South Carolina.[1]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned MKS by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[2] (which assigned MKS to Mekane Selam Airport in Ethiopia[3]).

Facilities and aircraft

Berkeley County Airport covers an area of 236 acres (96 ha) at an elevation of 73 feet (22 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 5/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,351 by 75 feet (1,326 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending April 21, 2010, the airport had 29,550 aircraft operations, an average of 80 per day: 96% general aviation, 3% air taxi, and 1% military. At that time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 89% single-engine and 11% multi-engine.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for MKS (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "Berkeley County Airport (FAA: MKS, ICAO: KMKS)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  3. ↑ "Mekane Selam Airport, Ethiopia (IATA: MKS, ICAO: HAMA)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 17 August 2010.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 21, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.