Sumter Airport

Sumter Airport
IATA: SUM ICAO: KSMS FAA LID: SMS
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City & County of Sumter
Serves	Sumter, South Carolina
Elevation AMSL	182 ft / 55 m
Coordinates	33°59′42″N 080°21′41″W / 33.99500°N 80.36139°W / 33.99500; -80.36139
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 5/23 5,501 1,677 Asphalt 14/32 3,081 939 Turf
Statistics (2021)
Aircraft operations (year ending 6/17/2021) 12,100 Based aircraft 31
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Sumter Airport (IATA: SUM, ICAO: KSMS, FAA LID: SMS) is a public use airport located 4 nmi (7.4 km) north of the central business district of Sumter, a city in Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. The airport is owned and operated by the Sumter County under an Airport Commission structure and has a county appointed airport manager, Jeff Knauer.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Sumter Airport is assigned SMS by the FAA and SUM by the IATA^[2] (which assigned SMS to Sainte Marie Airport in Nosy Boraha, Madagascar^[3]).

Sumter Airport covers an area of 429 acres (174 ha) at an elevation of 182 feet (55 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 5/23 is 5,501 by 100 feet (1,677 x 30 m) with an asphalt surface; 14/32 is 3,081 by 120 feet (939 x 37 m) with a turf surface.^[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 17, 2021, the airport had 12,100 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 96% general aviation, 3% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 31 aircraft based at this airport: 21 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, 4 jet, and 1 helicopter.^[1]

• List of airports in South Carolina

• Sumter Airport (SMS) airport data from South Carolina Division of Aeronautics
• IFR aircraft movements from South Carolina Division of Aeronautics
• FAA Terminal Procedures for SMS, effective November 28, 2024
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for SMS
  • AirNav airport information for KSMS
  • ASN accident history for SUM
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures