Carolina Soaring Association
Flying club in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where the main public airport is Spartanburg Downtown Meml/Simpson Field (SPA). The FAA register lists 2 aircraft under this name, mostly Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau ASTIR CS.
Website: carolinasoaring.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Carolina Soaring Association from its own website, read October 10, 2026
Carolina Soaring Association is a flying club based in Spartanburg, South Carolina that offers glider flight training, discovery flights, and recreational soaring. The club operates from Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport and is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization.
- What it is
- Flying club
- Bases
- Spartanburg, SC KSPA
- Aircraft it names
- Grob 103 Acro, Standard Astir, Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee
- Services
- flight training, discovery flights, aircraft rental, aerotow launches, winch launching
- Founded
- 2008
- Telephone
- 864-256-1741
Written by the site from the pages of www.carolinasoaring.com on October 10, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
8 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 8 for private pilot, 8 for commercial and instrument, 4 for airline transport pilot, 4 for flight instructor; 8 for airplanes, 5 for multi-engine airplanes. Also nearby: 1 sport aviation examiner, 16 aviation medical examiners, 4 mechanic examiners, 3 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 3 engineering representatives, 1 parachute rigger examiner, 2 training center examiners.
- William Porcher Dubose private pilot, commercial and instrument; airplanes · Spartanburg Memorial Downtown Airport · Spartanburg, SC (0 nm) · (803) 256-3544 · info@scdpe.com
- Brett Avery Zukowski private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Greenville, SC (20 nm) · (864) 201-9356 · bzukowski@usaeroflight.net
- Gregory Collins private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot; airplanes · Rutherford County Airport FBO · Rutherford, NC (26 nm) · (828) 460-3646 · smokiescfi1@gmail.com
- Leonard Litton private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Piedmont, SC (27 nm) · (703) 389-7709 · landslitton@gmail.com
- David Alan Smith private pilot, commercial and instrument, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Fletcher, NC (40 nm) · (828) 458-8484 · david@pitchvy.com
- Darrin Murphy private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Gastonia Municipal Airport KAKH · Gastonia, NC (43 nm) · (803) 526-1153 · darrinmurphy17@gmail.com
- Harrison Grady Smith private pilot, commercial and instrument; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Central, SC (43 nm) · (864) 986-9664 · harrisonsmith@me.com
- Melissa Curtis private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Gastonia Municipal Airport · Gastonia, NC (43 nm) · (757) 435-7865 · bogeee71@gmail.com
All 38 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- SAE: Sport Aviation Examiner: gives the tests for sport pilot certificates and light-sport aircraft.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DPRE: Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner: tests candidates for the parachute rigger certificate.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Connections how this company links to the rest of the register
- Spartanburg, SC · where it registers its aircraft
- Spartanburg Downtown Meml/Simpson Field · SPA
- South Carolina 3,109 aircraft registered
- 2 aircraft on the register · Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau ASTIR CS
This entry comes from the company's name on the FAA aircraft register (October 9, 2026): the FAA publishes no list of flight schools, so a company whose name says what it does is listed here. Is this your company? Claim or correct this listing: the base, the website, what you do, your own pictures.