Lake City Gateway Airport
LCQ · KLCQ · Lake City, Florida · Columbia County · map
Lake City Gateway Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Lake City, 3 miles east of Lake City, Florida, 201 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 8,003 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 29 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 28,714 takeoffs and landings a year. About 6 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KLCQ · observed 7:15 pm EDT (23:15 UTC), 16 minutes ago
IFR instrument conditions
- Wind from the north-northeast (030°) at 4 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: overcast at 800 feet
- Temperature 72°F (22°C), dew point 72°F (22°C)
- Altimeter 29.93 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KLCQ 062315Z AUTO 03004KT 10SM OVC008 22/22 A2993 RMK AO2
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LCQ · ICAO KLCQ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Lake City
- Elevation
- 201 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 8:00 am to 4:30 pm mon-fri
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 8,003 × 150 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 42 ft high 1,425 ft from the end
- Runway 28: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 48 ft high 1,885 ft from the end
- Runway 05: trees 64 ft high 1,690 ft from the end
- Runway 23: trees 50 ft high 1,625 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.2 | Lake City |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Ground | 121.9 | Lake City |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Lake City |
| Lcq and aWOS-3 | 120.675 | |
| Lake City Center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.375 | Lake City |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 386-754-9366.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 28,714, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Lake City from the FAA register
139 aircraft are registered to owners in Lake City, Florida: 107 piston singles, 11 piston twins, 7 helicopters, 6 turboprops, 4 business jets. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 10 and 28; medium-intensity runway lights runway 5/23 and 10/28 - the common traffic frequency.
- Tower atndd otr times by NOTAM.
- Unlit 60 feet poles on movement area. Helicopters advised to taxi on paved areas only.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.