Summerville Airport (ICAO: KDYB, FAA LID: DYB) is a county-owned, public-use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) northwest of the central business district of Summerville, a city in Dorchester County, South Carolina, United States.[1] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]

Summerville Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KDYB FAA LID: DYB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Dorchester County
Serves	Summerville, South Carolina
Elevation AMSL	56 ft / 17 m
Coordinates	33°03′48″N 080°16′46″W
Map
DYB Location of airport in South Carolina
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 6/24 5,000 1,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Aircraft operations 9,250 Based aircraft 64
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned DYB by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[3][4]

Facilities and aircraft

Summerville Airport covers an area of 195 acres (79 ha) at an elevation of 56 feet (17 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending November 27, 2019, the airport had 9,250 aircraft operations, an average of 25 per day: 88% general aviation, 9% air taxi, and 3% military. At that time there were 64 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, and 2% helicopter.[1]

See also

• St. George Airport (FAA: 6J2) located at 33°11′44″N 080°30′30″W in St. George, Dorchester County, South Carolina.

References

External links

• Airport page at Dorchester County website
• Summerville (DYB) at the South Carolina Aeronautics Commission
• Aerial image as of February 1994 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for DYB, effective November 3, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for DYB
  • AirNav airport information for KDYB
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures