Lee County/Butters Field
52J · Bishopville, South Carolina · Lee County · map
Lee County/Butters Field is a public-use airport owned by Lee County, 2 miles north of Bishopville, South Carolina, 211 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 3,200 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 10 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 700 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 52J
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Lee County
- Elevation
- 211 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 3,200 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 24: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 700, 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 Bishopville from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Bishopville, South Carolina: 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 Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- Existed prior to 1958.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 6/24 and PAPI runway 06 and runway 24 - the common traffic frequency.
- Agricultural operations at airport
- Runway 06 PAPI unusable beyond 3 degrees left of centerline.
- Runway 24 PAPI unusable beyond 6 degrees left of centerline.
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.