Saratoga County
5B2 · Saratoga Springs, New York · Saratoga County · map
Saratoga County is a public-use airport owned by Saratoga County, 3 miles southwest of Saratoga Springs, New York, 434 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 4,699 feet of asphalt and concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 94 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The FAA counts about 38,550 takeoffs and landings a year. About 143 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Quick answers answers refresh every morning
What is the airport code for Saratoga County?
Its FAA code is 5B2.
Where is Saratoga County?
It is 3 miles southwest of Saratoga Springs, New York, 434 feet above sea level.
How long is the longest runway at Saratoga County?
The longest of its 2 runways, 05/23, is 4,699 feet long.
Does Saratoga County have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Saratoga County?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas, Jet A.
Are there flight schools at Saratoga County?
6 flight schools, flying clubs or college flight programmes are based within about 15 miles of it, including Adirondack Soaring Association INC and Adk Flying Club INC. Compare them
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Saratoga County?
6 pilot examiners and 6 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Saratoga County…
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5B2
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Saratoga County
- Elevation
- 434 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 767 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:30 am to dusk
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 4,699 × 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 14/32 | 4,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: trees 89 ft high 1,579 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 89 ft high 1,876 ft from the end
- Runway 14: trees 69 ft high 455 ft from the end
- Runway 32: trees 73 ft high 713 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.05 | |
| Apt Remark 5 With Gco Freq | 118.125 | · Gco available on frequency 118.125 through alb clearance delivery. |
| 5B2 AWOS-3 | 132.025 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 518-884-9289.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure)
- Also here
- avionics, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft sales
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Schenectady County (12 nm south), Albany International (18 nm south), Floyd Bennett Memorial (21 nm northeast).
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 New York · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Unknown.
- Jet or turbine aircraft use 5 or 23.
- Peak during racing season.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 05/23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- The FBO (fixed-base operator)
- Greg ball, Saratoga county dpw.
- Runway lights out of service.
- Paved service road 186 feet left of centerline, along runway to txy C.
- Glider actvty on weekends and occasionally weekdays with extensive PRE-LAUNCH and after landing gnd operations on shoulders of runway in use.
- Albany ang helicopters do tgl operations usually durg daylight hours.
- Year round federally and state protected habitat for karner blue butterfly; unauthorized OFF-PAVEMENT operations prohibited.
- Gco available on frequency 118.125 through alb clearance delivery.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 45 |
| jets | 1 |
| helicopters | 3 |
| other | 45 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 38,550, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 1,500 |
| general aviation, travelling | 15,000 |
| general aviation, local | 22,000 |
| military | 50 |
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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Saratoga Springs from the FAA register
48 aircraft are registered to owners in Saratoga Springs, New York: 30 piston singles, 9 business jets, 4 gliders, 3 balloons, 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.
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 New York.
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:
- Adirondack Soaring Association INC 6 aircraft · Ballston Spa, 3 miles away Adirondack Soaring Association is a member-owned flying club based at Saratoga County Airport in Saratoga Springs, New York.
- Adk Flying Club INC 4 aircraft · Ballston Spa, 3 miles away ADK Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club based at Saratoga Airport (5B2) in Ballston Spa, New York.
- Saratoga Soaring Association 1 aircraft · Ballston Lake, 8 miles away
- Sports Flyers Association INC 1 aircraft · Schenectady, 14 miles away
- Northumberland Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Gansevoort, 15 miles away
- Xtreme Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Gansevoort, 15 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.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
6 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 6 for private pilot, 5 for commercial and instrument, 1 for airline transport pilot, 6 for flight instructor, 2 for sport pilot, 1 for type ratings; 4 for airplanes, 1 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for helicopters, 1 for gliders. Also nearby: 6 aviation medical examiners, 1 mechanic examiner.
- Abdallah Mahmoud Itani private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, type ratings, private pilot (proficiency), instructor renewals, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Ballston Spa, NY (3 nm) · (518) 573-8534 · [email protected]
- Matthew Angelo Taggard private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, commercial pilot, instructor renewals; helicopters · Independent Helicopters, LLC · Ballston Spa, NY (3 nm) · (845) 243-4794 · [email protected]
- Edward J Winchester private pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot; gliders · Porter Corners, NY (8 nm) · (518) 281-3545 · [email protected]
- Andrew Everett Defeo private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes · Altamont, NY (23 nm) · (518) 330-0746 · [email protected]
- Brad Joesph Sulik private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instructor renewals; airplanes · South Albany Airport · Selkirk, NY (31 nm) · (917) 803-2534 · [email protected]
- Stewart Douglas Stewart private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes · columbia county airport / 1B1 · Ghent, NY (43 nm) · (413) 281-6788 · [email protected]
All 13 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 14 since 1982, 3 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Saratoga Springs 48 aircraft · 30 piston singles, 9 business jets, 4 gliders
- Adirondack Legacy Aircraft LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Hilltop Asset Holdings LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Adirondack Soaring Association INC 6 aircraft · flying club
- Adk Flying Club INC 4 aircraft · flying club
- Saratoga Soaring Association 1 aircraft · flying club
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 14 since 1982 · 3 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in New York 1,965 since 1982 · 252 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in New York 127 landing places
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/5B2.json.
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 26, 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.