Wessington Springs Airport
4X4 · Wessington Springs, South Dakota · Jerauld County · map
Wessington Springs Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Wessington Springs, 2 miles east of Wessington Springs, South Dakota, 1,544 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,600 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 5 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 150 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 4X4
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Wessington Springs
- Elevation
- 1,544 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 2003
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,600 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, four lights on the left, power line 25 ft high 832 ft from the end
- Runway 30: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Huron and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.25 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 150, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Wessington Springs from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Wessington Springs, South Dakota: 5 piston singles, 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in South Dakota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- See alp ltr dated june 6, 1996.
- Rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30; runway end identifier lights and PAPI runways 12 and 30 - the common traffic frequency.
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.