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KLQK · LQK

Pickens County Airport

34.81000°N
-82.70290°W
ARR / DAY
10
26.0%
DEP / DAY
13
17.6%

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.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

8h ago
Temp
72°F
Wind
5 kts
340°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KLQK 270655Z AUTO 34005KT 10SM OVC017 22/21 A3003 RMK AO2 T02150205

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
57% of ops
190 land · 119 TO
05
43% of ops
144 land · 128 TO
Runway 23 carries 57% of operations (190 landings, 119 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 43%.

Approach quality

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

23 190 landings
UA 6%
05 144 landings
UA 1%
Approaches to 23 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 190 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
21.6
flights/day · 647 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 2pm · 5pm
Day vs night
77%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 21.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (19.5 vs 23.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 450 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)

1
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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