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Chris Hofer Landing Strip

3SD4 · Tea, South Dakota · Lincoln County · map

Chris Hofer Landing Strip is a private airport, 2 miles northwest of Tea, South Dakota, 1,515 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 2,300 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 3SD4
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
1,515 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Omaha sectional
In the FAA's files since
June 2004

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1634N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
16/342,300 × 120 ftGrass
  • Runway 16: right-hand traffic pattern

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: Marv Skie-Lincoln County (3 nm east), Joe Foss Field (9 nm northeast), Quentin Aanenson Field (30 nm east), Madison Municipal (34 nm north).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Marv Skie-Lincoln County (3 nm east), Joe Foss Field (9 nm northeast), Canton Municipal (16 nm southeast), Rock Rapids Municipal (30 nm east).

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

  • Provided traffic pattern is west of runway to avoid overlap with maro skei airport, clear obstacle free zone, clear runway safety area, and clear 20:1 approaches.
  • All traffic remain west of airport.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Tea from the FAA register

24 aircraft are registered to owners in Tea, South Dakota: 19 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 1 balloon. 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:

Vanguard Squadron INC 6Legacy Aviation LLC 5Updraft Leasing LLC 2Tav8Rs LLC 2Clement Aviation INC 2

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:

  • Legacy Aviation LLC 10 aircraft · Tea, 3 miles away Legacy Aviation is an FAA-certified Part 141 flight school based in Tea, South Dakota, near Sioux Falls.
  • Dakota Aviation LLC 4 aircraft · Sioux Falls, 10 miles away Dakota Aviation offers flight training at Canton Airport (7G9) near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, under Part 61.
  • Mockingbird Flying Club 3 aircraft · Sioux Falls, 10 miles away Mockingbird Flying Club is a member-owned flying club based at Sioux Falls Regional Airport in South Dakota.
  • Yellow Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Sioux Falls, 10 miles away

Charter operators and airlines based in Tea:

  • Legacy Aviation, LLC 5 aircraft on the certificate Legacy Aviation is an FAA-certified flight school, charter operator, and fixed-base operator located in Tea, South Dakota, near Sioux Falls.

Repair stations in Tea:

  • Legacy Aviation LLC Legacy Aviation is an FAA-certified flight school, charter operator, and maintenance facility based in Tea, South Dakota, near Sioux Falls.

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.

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

In town
Who works here
Record
Around it

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/3SD4.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.