Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport satellite view

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KSPA · SPA

Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport

34.91570°N

-81.95650°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 18.5%

DEP / DAY

▼ 27.1%

Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport (KSPA/SPA) is a small general aviation airport located in Spartanburg, SC, 67 mi west of Charlotte. It features 1 runway measuring 5,852 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 13 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

26m ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSPA 070915Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/21 A2999 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

5,852 FT MAX

05/23

5,852 ft × 100

ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

67% of ops

144 land · 46 TO

33% of ops

72 land · 87 TO

Runway 05 carries 67% of operations (144 landings, 46 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 33%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

05 144 landings

UA 3%

23 72 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 05 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 144 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy — hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

18.9

flights/day · 567 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 1pm

Day vs night

71%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 18.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (17.4 vs 20.4 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here — top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (20% of 451 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
APCH	119.400	—
APCH	350.200	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
AWOS	133.925	—
BIMMR DP	119.400	—
BWALL DP	119.400	—
OTHER	119.400	—
CD/P	120.550	—
OTHER	120.550	—
OWING RC	135.350	—
OTHER	135.350	—
OWING RC	263.125	—
OTHER	263.125	—
BIMMR DP	350.200	—
BWALL DP	350.200	—
OTHER	350.200	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Elevation:: 802 ft
Mag var:: 5° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports — click to expand

SPAflyer

11/29/2007

Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport - South Carolina's old

My home airport. 5200' runway with ILS and close to Spartanburg's downtown.

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