Columbus County Municipal Airport

Columbus County Municipal Airport
Columbus County Municipal Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KCPC; FAA LID: CPC;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Columbus County
Serves	Whiteville, North Carolina
Elevation AMSL	99 ft / 30 m
Coordinates	34°16′22″N 078°42′54″W / 34.27278°N 78.71500°WCoordinates: 34°16′22″N 078°42′54″W / 34.27278°N 78.71500°W
Map
	CPC Location of airport in North Carolina
Runways
Statistics (2012)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	16,700
Based aircraft	27
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Columbus County Municipal Airport (ICAO: KCPC, FAA LID: CPC) is a county-owned, public-use airport in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States.^[1] It is located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Whiteville, North Carolina.^[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CPC by the FAA^[1] but has no designation from the IATA^[3] (which assigned CPC to Chapelco Airport in San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén Province, Argentina).^[4] The airport's ICAO identifier is KCPC.^[5]

Facilities and aircraft[]

Columbus County Municipal Airport covers an area of 300 acres (121 ha) at an elevation of 99 feet (30 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,500 by 75 feet (1,676 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending March 17, 2012, the airport had 16,700 aircraft operations, an average of 45 per day: 81% general aviation, 13% air taxi, and 6% military. At that time there were 27 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 4% multi-engine, and 19% helicopter.^[1]