Spartanburg Downtown Meml/Simpson Field
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Spartanburg Downtown Meml/Simpson Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Spartanburg, 3 miles southwest of Spartanburg, South Carolina, 802 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 5,852 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SPA · ICAO KSPA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Spartanburg
- Elevation
- 802 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- 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
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1937
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 5,852 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), tree 88 ft high 3,504 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left, 5,452 ft available for landing
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Clearance delivery | 120.55 | |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BIMMR) · Departure procedure (BWALL) | 119.4 | |
| Spa and aWOS-3 | 133.925 | |
| Owing and center (remote transmitter) Low | 135.35 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 864-587-2529.
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 Spartanburg from the FAA register
67 aircraft are registered to owners in Spartanburg, South Carolina: 39 piston singles, 10 business jets, 5 turboprops, 5 piston twins, 3 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, never named. All aircraft registered in South Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 19 since 1982, 2 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
- Airport existed prior 1958.
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 05; runway end identifier lights runway 23; PAPI runway 05 and 23; high-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude: 800 feet above ground level for piston aircraft, 1300 feet above ground level for turbo prop aircraft and small jets.
- Glider operations.
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.