Western Carolina Regional Airport

Western Carolina Regional Airport
Western Carolina Regional Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KRHP; FAA LID: RHP;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Cherokee County
Operator	Managing FBO Gayland Trull (70)
Serves	Andrews, North Carolina
Elevation AMSL	1,697 ft / 517 m
Coordinates	35°11′43″N 083°51′47″W / 35.19528°N 83.86306°W
Website	westerncarolinaregional.us
Runways
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	20,500
Based aircraft	73
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Western Carolina Regional Airport (ICAO: KRHP, FAA LID: RHP) is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central business district of Andrews, in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States.^[1] It was formerly known as Andrews-Murphy Airport.^[2]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned RHP by the FAA and has no assignment from the IATA^[3] (which assigned RHP to Ramechhap, Nepal^[4]). The airport's ICAO identifier is KRHP.^[5]

Facilities and aircraft[]

Western Carolina Regional Airport covers an area of 206 acres (83 ha) at an elevation of 1,697 feet (517 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 8/26 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending September 8, 2008, the airport had 20,500 aircraft operations, an average of 56 per day: 93% general aviation, 5% air taxi, and 2% military. At that time there were 73 aircraft based at this airport: 64% single-engine, 27% multi-engine and 8% helicopter.^[1]

Flight Training[]

The KRHP Flight Training is provided by Blue Ridge Mountain Flyers Aviation (GA firm since 8/2018) of Ret. AirTran Airways Pilot Mr. Gayland Trull (70) licensed for Airplane Single Engine, Multi-engine & Commercial and Airline Transport;

Airport Services[]

The KRHP service features tie-down and hangar space as well as fuel and service: 100LL, JET-A, JET-A1+.

Airport History[]

The County Airport was built and open to the public after WWII in July 1947. At the time the airport name was the Wood Field Andrews-Murphy Regional Airport. Nowadays the airport terminal is named after legendary aviator Mr. Richard Parker (93).