Flying O Airport
00SC · Sumter, South Carolina · Abbeville County · map
Flying O Airport is a private airport, 6 miles southwest of Sumter, South Carolina, 150 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,900 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 00SC
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 150 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- February 2003
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,900 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 08: trees 36 ft high 500 ft from the end
- Runway 26: trees on the approach
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Sumter Airport (5 nm west), Woodward Field (22 nm northwest), Hartsville Regional (25 nm north), Santee Cooper Regional (26 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Sumter Airport (5 nm west), Lee County/Butters Field (14 nm north), Woodward Field (22 nm northwest), Hartsville Regional (25 nm north).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in South Carolina · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Pvdd VFR pvt use.
- 100 feet water tank.6 NM southwest of airport.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Sumter from the FAA register
31 aircraft are registered to owners in Sumter, South Carolina: 23 piston singles, 4 business jets, 3 piston twins, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in South Carolina.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Sumter Aero Club INC 1 aircraft · Sumter, 5 miles away
Repair stations in Sumter:
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Sumter 31 aircraft · 23 piston singles, 4 business jets, 3 piston twins
- Oew Aviation LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Sumter Aero Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- South Carolina Avionics Services, LLC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in South Carolina 1,036 since 1982 · 173 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in South Carolina 67 landing places
- South Carolina 3,113 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/00SC.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 30, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.