Kauer Private Airport
3SD2 · Box Elder, South Dakota · Pennington County · map
Kauer Private Airport is a private airport, 8 miles east of Box Elder, South Dakota, 3,000 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 1,600 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 3SD2
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 3,000 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- In the FAA's files since
- August 2015
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 1,600 × 60 ft | Grass |
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: Rapid City Regional (6 nm southwest), Sturgis Municipal (26 nm northwest), Custer County (36 nm southwest), Black Hills-Clyde Ice Field (42 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Rapid City Regional (6 nm southwest), Sturgis Municipal (26 nm northwest), Custer County (36 nm southwest), Black Hills-Clyde Ice Field (42 nm northwest).
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 Dakota · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- All operations conducted in VFR weather conditions; landing area is ltd to pvt use. ASN-2011-AGL-5127-NRA
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Box Elder from the FAA register
39 aircraft are registered to owners in Box Elder, South Dakota: 27 piston singles, 5 balloons, 2 drones, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin. 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 Dakota.
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:
- Black Hills Soaring Club INC 1 aircraft · Rapid City, 7 miles away
- Rapid 6 Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Rapid City, 7 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 Box Elder 39 aircraft · 27 piston singles, 5 balloons, 2 drones
- Crosswind Enterprises LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Black Hills Soaring Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Rapid 6 Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in South Dakota 467 since 1982 · 67 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in South Dakota 70 landing places
- South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/3SD2.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 28, 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.