Sumter Airport

Sumter Airport is a public use airport located north of the central business district of Sumter, a city in Sumter [County, South Carolina|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.

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 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.