Beaufort County Airport
| Beaufort County Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | County of Beaufort | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lady's Island | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 9 ft / 3 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°24′44″N 080°38′04″W / 32.41222°N 80.63444°WCoordinates: 32°24′44″N 080°38′04″W / 32.41222°N 80.63444°W | ||||||||||
| Website | www.bcgov.net/... | ||||||||||
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 ARW
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| Aircraft operations | 36,000 |
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| Based aircraft | 36 |
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. The airport is located on Lady's Island, three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Beaufort, South Carolina. It is also known as Frogmore Island Airport or Frogmore Intranational Airport.
This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
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 and BFT by the IATA (which assigned ARW to Arad Airport in Arad, Romania).
Beaufort is also known for hosting Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort (ICAO: KNBC, FAA LID: NBC), located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Beaufort County Airport.
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