Western Carolina Regional Airport


Western Carolina Regional Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles west of the central business district of Andrews, in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. It was formerly known as Andrews-Murphy Airport.
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. The airport's ICAO identifier is KRHP.

Facilities and aircraft

Western Carolina Regional Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 1,697 feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 8/26 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,500 by 100 feet.
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.

Flight Training

The KRHP Flight Training is provided by Blue Ridge Mountain Flyers Aviation of Ret. AirTran Airways Pilot Mr. Gayland Trull 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.