| Sumter Airport | |
| Iata: | SUM |
| Icao: | KSMS |
| Faa: | SMS |
| Type: | Public |
| City-Served: | Sumter, South Carolina |
| Elevation-F: | 182 |
| Elevation-M: | 55 |
| Coordinates: | 33.995°N -80.3614°W |
| R1-Number: | 5/23 |
| R1-Length-F: | 5,501 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,677 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| R2-Number: | 14/32 |
| R2-Length-F: | 3,081 |
| R2-Length-M: | 939 |
| R2-Surface: | Turf |
| Stat-Year: | 2021 |
| Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (year ending 6/17/2021) |
| Stat1-Data: | 12,100 |
| Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft |
| Stat2-Data: | 31 |
| Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Sumter Airport is a public use airport located 4nmi 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 429acres 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.
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.