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 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 38,550 takeoffs and landings a year. About 143 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
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
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- 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.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 38,550, 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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
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, never named. All aircraft registered in New York.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 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.
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.