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Pickens County Airport

34.81000°N
-82.70290°W
ARR / DAY
0
▼ 100.0%
DEP / DAY
0
▼ 100.0%

Pickens County Airport (KLQK/LQK) is a small general aviation airport located in Pickens, SC, 70 mi north east of Athens. It features 1 runway measuring 5,002 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

12h ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
4 kts
330°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KLQK 270535Z AUTO 33004KT 10SM CLR 24/23 A2994 RMK AO2 T02410230

Runways

1 installed

5,002 FT MAX
05/23
5,002 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

23
68% of ops
526 land · 340 TO
05
32% of ops
252 land · 246 TO
Runway 23 carries 68% of operations (526 landings, 340 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 32%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

23 526 landings
UA 6%
05 252 landings
UA 4%
Approaches to 23 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (32 UA events from 526 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
17.2
flights/day · 515 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 1pm · 3pm
Day vs night
78%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 17.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (16.8 vs 18.1 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

55 · 16%
43 · 12%
31 · 9%
30 · 9%
24 · 7%
15 · 4%
Activity is led by (16% of 346 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 118.800 —
APCH 270.275 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 120.000 —
MOUNT OG 134.800 —
OTHER 134.800 —
MOUNT OG 379.950 —
OTHER 379.950 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZTL
Mag var:
4° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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greenbaron
06/28/2012
A fun day trip!
Beautiful, modern terminal, nice big runway, courtesy car for the 2 mile drive into town where you should not must not miss an absolutely splendid lunch at the Little Bistro.... I highly recommend a visit via air to the super-friendly town of Liberty!
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