Black Hills-Clyde Ice Field
SPF · KSPF · Spearfish, South Dakota · Lawrence County · map
Black Hills-Clyde Ice Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Spearfish, 3 miles east of Spearfish, South Dakota, 3,933 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 6,401 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SPF · ICAO KSPF
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Spearfish
- Elevation
- 3,933 feet above sea level
- 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
- Cheyenne sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1937
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 6,401 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 4,003 × 100 ft | Grass, excellent | |
| 04/22 | 1,995 × 120 ft | Grass, excellent |
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, hill 98 ft high 2,160 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 04: road 18 ft high 650 ft from the end
- Runway 22: fence 1 ft high 150 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.5 | |
| Spf and aWOS-3 | 118.325 | |
| Apt Remark 8 With Gco Freq | 121.725 | |
| Rapid City Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 127.95 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 605-642-8536.
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 Spearfish from the FAA register
52 aircraft are registered to owners in Spearfish, South Dakota: 44 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 2 helicopters, 1 turboprop, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Dakota.
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
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31; PAPI runways 13 and 31 and taxiway a LGTS- the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 04/22 and runway 08/26 marked with Black and white edge markers.
- Ireg operations in and out of pvt airfield located approximately 3300 feet south of airport; check the common traffic frequency frequency for status.
- Runway 22 +4 feet fence 50 feet R 141 feet from thld and 50 feet L 175 feet from thld.,
- Ultralight activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Gco available on frequency 121.725 (4 clicks to ellsworth approach and 6 clicks to denver center)
- High vol of aircraft oprng in the vicinity of of MT rushmore and crazy horse monuments at or below 7500 feet; pilots are advised to mnt 122.85 for traffic advisories.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -30C.
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.