Sumter Airport


Sumter Airport is a public use airport located four nautical miles north of the central business district of Sumter, a city in Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. It is owned by the city and county of Sumter. The airport is operated by “On Eagles Wings.” Consisting of Jeff Knauer and Jeremey Bauer.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned SMS by the FAA and SUM by the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Sumter Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 182 feet above mean sea level. It has two runways: 5/23 is 5,501 by 100 feet with an asphalt surface; 14/32 is 3,081 by 120 feet with a turf surface.
For the 12-month period ending August 15, 2008, the airport had 48,300 aircraft operations, an average of 132 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 55 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single-engine and 16% multi-engine.