Chester Catawba Regional
DCM · KDCM · Chester, South Carolina · Chester County · map
Chester Catawba Regional is a public-use airport owned by the County of Chester, 5 miles north of Chester, South Carolina, 657 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 29 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 8,400 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KDCM · observed 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC), 17 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: scattered clouds at 4,800 feet
- Temperature 70°F (21°C), dew point 54°F (12°C)
- Altimeter 30.07 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KDCM 062235Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT048 21/12 A3007 RMK AO2
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA DCM · ICAO KDCM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Chester
- Elevation
- 657 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm; Sunday, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 5,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 4,998 × 100 ft | Asphalt, poor |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, tree 73 ft high 1,800 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 65 ft high 2,113 ft from the end
- Runway 05: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 949 ft, tree 78 ft high 1,433 ft from the end
- Runway 23: tree 29 ft high 310 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 120.05 | |
| Dcm and aWOS-3 | 120.975 | |
| Rasln and star | 126.15 | |
| Jools and star | 135.6 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 803-385-2011.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 8,400, 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 Chester from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Chester, South Carolina: 5 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Existd prior to 1958.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 17 and 35 operates continuously.
- Airport can be acesd by pedestrian gate next to terminal building aft hours by first four nrs of automated weather (AWOS) frequency in combination lock box.
- Runway 05/23 pci rating 40 very poor.
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.