page_title: Western Carolina Regional Airport
section_title: Airport History
hierarchical_section_title: Western Carolina Regional Airport / Airport History
caption_attribution_description: English: Personal collection photography provided by Airport Legend Mr. Richard Parker
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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).
caption: 1947 Western Carolina Regional Airport
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