Rapid City Regional

The airport

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

• Runway 14: PAPI, four lights on the left, fence 25 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
• Runway 32: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
• Runway 05: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
• Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 15 ft high 628 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 605-223-0202.

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Sturgis Municipal (26 nm northwest), Custer County (31 nm southwest), Black Hills-Clyde Ice Field (41 nm northwest).

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 South Dakota · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

• Rescue and firefighting (ARFF) index C available upon required.
• Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
• When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 32; runway end identifier lights runway 14; high-intensity runway lights runway 14/32; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23; taxiway a and B lights - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 05, 14, 23, 32 operates continuously.
• Landing fees required for aircraft 12,500 pounds or gtr.
• 100LL and jeta self service available 24 hours with credit card only northeast side of general aviation ramp.
• Runway 05/23 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
• Be alert: extensive military jet traffic in the vicinity of and nnw of airport.
• LINE-OF-SIGHT is restricted between runway 14 and runway 23 physical ends.
• 152 feet above ground level tower 2.5 NM nnw of airport.
• Be alert do not mistake ellsworth afb, located 6.5 NM nnw for Rapid City regional.
• Tower has limited visibility of taxiway T1 and taxiway T2 and taxiway B at aer runway 23
• Overnight parking allowed in designated tiedown areas only.

Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024

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 aircraft heard arriving or departing are the site's own record from the volunteer receiver network, airliners included; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.

Takeoffs and landings a year about 47,311, 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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.

Aircraft registered in Rapid City from the FAA register

152 aircraft are registered to owners in Rapid City, South Dakota: 98 piston singles, 13 turboprops, 13 gliders, 9 piston twins, 7 helicopters. 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 South Dakota.

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:

• Black Hills Soaring Club INC 1 aircraft · Rapid City
• Rapid 6 Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Rapid City

Charter operators and airlines based in Rapid City:

• Black Hills Helicopters and Charters, INC. 7 aircraft on the certificate Black Hills Helicopters is a helicopter tour operator based in Keystone, South Dakota, offering private scenic tours over Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, and other Black Hills landmarks.
• Dale Aviation INC 7 aircraft on the certificate

Repair stations in Rapid City:

• Advanced Aerotechnologies Group, L.L.C. Advanced Aero Technologies Group is an FAA-certified repair station providing avionics installation, aircraft maintenance, engine overhaul and repair, and inspection services.
• Dale Aviation INC
• Rapid Avionics INC

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.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 13 since 1982, 4 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