Dry Swamp Airport
1DS · Orangeburg, South Carolina · Orangeburg County · map
Dry Swamp Airport is a public-use airport, 6 miles south of Orangeburg, South Carolina, 180 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 2,900 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1DS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 180 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Wednesday to Monday, dawn to dusk; Tuesday, dawn to 12:00 pm
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- December 2004
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 2,900 × 60 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 02: threshold displaced 900 ft, tree 79 ft high 52 ft from the end
- Runway 20: threshold displaced 900 ft, tree 67 ft high 25 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Orangeburg from the FAA register
18 aircraft are registered to owners in Orangeburg, South Carolina: 13 piston singles, 4 business jets, 1 drone. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in South Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Glider operations on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Unatndd tuesday afternoons.
- Ctlng obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Ctlng obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 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 5, 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.