Columbus County Municipal Airport


Columbus County Municipal Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States. It is located three nautical miles south of the central business district of Whiteville, North Carolina. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
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 but has no designation from the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KCPC.

Facilities and aircraft

Columbus County Municipal Airport covers an area of 300 acres at an elevation of 99 feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,500 by 75 feet.
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.