Black Hills Airport . "Black Hills Airport". (Clyde Ice Field) is a public airport three miles (5 km) east of
Spearfish
Spearfish may refer to:
Places
*Spearfish, South Dakota, United States
* North Spearfish, South Dakota, United States
* Spearfish Formation, a geologic formation in the United States
Biology
* ''Tetrapturus'', a genus of marlin containing spe ...
, in
Lawrence County, South Dakota
Lawrence County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 25,768. Its county seat is Deadwood.
Lawrence County is coextensive with the Spearfish, SD Micropolitan Statistical Area, ...
.
Western Airlines served Spearfish from 1949-50 until 1959.
Facilities
The airport covers ; its paved runway, 13/31, is 6,401 x 75 ft (1,951 x 23 m)
asphalt
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. It has two grass runways: 8/26 is 4,003 x 100 ft (1,220 x 30 m), and 4/22 is 1,995 x 120 ft (608 x 37 m).
In the year ending May 11, 2022 the airport had 17,000 aircraft operations, average 47 per day: 89%
general aviation
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, 7%
air taxi
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In 2001 air taxi operations were promoted in the United States by a NASA and aerospace industry study on the potential Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) ...
and 5% military. 71 aircraft were then based at this airport: 65 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 1 helicopter, and 1 glider.