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KLQK · LQK

Pickens County Airport

34.81000°N

-82.70290°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 17.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 5.3%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 10 arrivals and 13 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5h ago

Temp

81°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KLQK 281455Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 27/22 A3007 RMK AO2 T02660224

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

56% of ops

179 land · 114 TO

44% of ops

143 land · 126 TO

Runway 23 carries 56% of operations (179 landings, 114 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 44%.

Approach quality

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

23 179 landings

UA 6%

05 143 landings

UA 1%

Approaches to 23 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 179 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

20.6

flights/day · 617 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 5pm · 2pm

Day vs night

77%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 20.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (19.5 vs 22.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 434 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

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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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