Fairfield County Airport (South Carolina)

Fairfield County Airport
Fairfield County Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KFDW; FAA LID: FDW;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Fairfield County
Serves	Winnsboro, South Carolina
Elevation AMSL	577 ft / 176 m
Runways
Statistics (2019)
Aircraft operations (year ending 5/8/2019)
Aircraft operations (year ending 5/8/2019)	7,300
Based aircraft	36
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

34°18′56″N 081°06′32″W / 34.31556°N 81.10889°W / 34.31556; -81.10889

Fairfield County Airport (ICAO: KFDW, FAA LID: FDW) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Winnsboro, in Fairfield County, South Carolina, United States. It is owned by Fairfield County.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Fairfield County Airport is assigned FDW by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Fairfield County Airport covers an area of 159 acres (64 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (4/22) measuring 5,243 x 100 ft (1,598 x 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 8, 2019, the airport had 7,300 aircraft operations, an average of 20 per day: 92% general aviation, 4% air taxi and 4% military. There was at that time 36 aircraft based at this airport: 32 single engine and 4 multi-engine..^[1]

The on location fixed-base operator is S&S Aviation.