FAA examiners and inspectors in South Dakota
18 FAA designees are listed with an address in South Dakota: 6 pilot examiners, 9 aviation medical examiners, 1 mechanic examiner, 1 training center examiner, 1 manufacturing inspection representative. Each town's count opens its airport page, which says what the pilot examiners nearby may test for. Names are on the FAA's designee locator, not here, the site's policy at this time.
| Town | Airport | Pilot examiners | Medical examiners | Mechanic examiners | Others | In words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookings | Brookings Regional BKX | 1 | 2 | 1 pilot examiner, 2 aviation medical examiners | ||
| Rapid City | Rapid City Regional RAP | 2 | 1 | 2 aviation medical examiners, 1 training center examiner | ||
| Sioux Falls | Joe Foss Field FSD | 2 | 1 | 2 pilot examiners, 1 aviation medical examiner | ||
| Chamberlain | Chamberlain Municipal 9V9 | 1 | 1 aviation medical examiner | |||
| Dakota Dunes | no public airport in town | 1 | 1 aviation medical examiner | |||
| Madison | Madison Municipal MDS | 1 | 1 pilot examiner | |||
| Piedmont | no public airport in town | 1 | 1 aviation medical examiner | |||
| Pierre | Pierre Regional PIR | 1 | 1 aviation medical examiner | |||
| Renner | no public airport in town | 1 | 1 pilot examiner | |||
| Spearfish | Black Hills-Clyde Ice Field SPF | 1 | 1 pilot examiner | |||
| Valley Springs | no public airport in town | 1 | 1 manufacturing inspection representative | |||
| Watertown | Watertown Regional ATY | 1 | 1 mechanic examiner | |||
| Winner | Winner Regional ICR | 1 | 1 aviation medical examiner |
Source: the FAA's designee locator (the Designee Management System), read October 10, 2026: 9,064 listings of 7,259 active designees, 5,449 of them placed on the map (a designee with several addresses is counted once per town; each is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists, or, when the town has none, at the public airport nearest the centre of its zip code, from the Census Bureau's gazetteer). The locator names each designee with a telephone number and email address; this site shows counts only, its policy at this time. A designee's functions are the FAA's own codes (DPE-PE-ASEL is a pilot examiner for the private certificate in single-engine airplanes); the airport pages spell the main ones out. Examiners who list a flight school, FBO, operator or repair station on this site as their place of work are counted on that organisation's page (15 FBOs, 56 operators, 216 repair stations, 74 flight schools).