LCH

Lake Charles Regional Airport

ICAO KLCH30.1261°N 93.2233°W15 ft / 4 mMedium airport
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Lake Charles Regional Airport (IATA: LCH, ICAO: KLCH) is a medium airport in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. It opened in Nov 1961. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,500 ft (1,981 m). In 2025 it handled 183 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1961–1961
NOV 1961
OpenedLake Charles Regional Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Passenger Terminal
15/33155° / 335° · LIT
LENGTH6,500 ft1,981 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete
05/23052° / 232° · LIT
LENGTH5,200 ft1,585 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
142K
112K
102K
117K
125K
63K
105K
122K
164K
181K
183K
1516171819202122232425

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsUnited Express 1American Eagle 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LCH. From the Wikipedia article “Lake Charles Regional Airport” (revision of 16 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers183K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,572of 3,974 · #348 North America · #231 USLongest runway6,500 ft1,981 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,090of 29,823 · =1,025 North America · =784 USElevation15 ft4 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,946of 43,341 · =18,922 North America · =15,452 USAgeOpened 19612026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,721of 15,079 · =3,230 North America · =3,154 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

8 channels
A/DAPP/DEP119.350
ATISATIS118.750
CLDCLNC DEL126.250
CTAFCTAF120.700
GNDGND121.800
RDODE RIDDER RDO122.300
TWRTWR120.700
UNICUNICOM122.950