LA Dolce Terra Airport
38SC · Gaffney, South Carolina · Cherokee County · map
LA Dolce Terra Airport is a private airport, 11 miles north of Gaffney, South Carolina, 890 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 2,300 feet of grass.
The FAA lists this airport as closed indefinitely.
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 38SC
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 890 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- July 2009
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 2,300 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 23: tower 170 ft high 5 ft from the end
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: Shelby-Cleveland County Regional (9 nm northeast), Rutherford County/Marchman Field (18 nm northwest), Spartanburg Downtown Meml/Simpson Field (19 nm southwest), Greenville Spartanburg International (29 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Shelby-Cleveland County Regional (9 nm northeast), Rutherford County/Marchman Field (18 nm northwest), Spartanburg Downtown Meml/Simpson Field (19 nm southwest), Greenville Spartanburg International (29 nm southwest).
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
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use only.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Gaffney from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Gaffney, South Carolina: 5 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 3 piston singles, 1 turboprop. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
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:
- 3580 Shelby Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Shelby, 10 miles away
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 Gaffney 9 aircraft · 5 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 3 piston singles, 1 turboprops
- 3580 Shelby Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in South Carolina 1,035 since 1982 · 172 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/38SC.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 29, 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.