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Anderson Regional Airport (KAND) is a county-owned general aviation field three nautical miles southwest of Anderson, South Carolina, serving business, corporate and private flying for the upstate region. It has no scheduled airline service and no control tower, but offers a Category I instrument landing system for all-weather operations, making it a useful VFR and IFR destination for visiting simulator pilots.
Anderson Regional Airport is a public-use, county-operated airfield lying about three nautical miles southwest of the town of Anderson, South Carolina. It carries no scheduled airline service and has no operating control tower, but it is one of the busier general aviation fields in the upstate of South Carolina, handling corporate, business and private traffic and equipped with a Category I instrument landing system for all-weather operations.
The airport sits at 751 feet elevation at coordinates 34.4946, -82.7094, roughly three nautical miles southwest of downtown Anderson. There is no control tower on the field, and traffic in the vicinity is handled through Greer approach and departure control. Nearby regional GA fields in the upstate South Carolina area provide alternative destinations for pilots operating in the region.
Anderson Regional has two physical runways. Runway 05/23 is 5,992 feet long with a hard surface, lit, and served by an ILS on runway 05. Runway 17/35 is 4,966 feet long with a hard surface and is not lit.
Pilots should expect the following published frequencies: Greer approach/departure on 118.8 MHz, ASOS on 120.675 MHz, CTAF on 123.6 MHz, RDO on 122.2 MHz, and UNICOM on 122.95 MHz. The field is equipped with a Category I instrument landing system supporting the approach to runway 05.
As an uncontrolled airfield, Anderson Regional relies on self-announced radio calls on the CTAF frequency of 123.6 MHz, with ASOS weather available on 120.675 MHz. No specific circuit heights or noise abatement procedures are detailed in available sources.
New Prospect Elementary School, whose mascot is the Jets, sits directly across from the airport and serves as a useful ground reference. The field is also the headquarters of the Anderson County Civil Air Patrol. The airport lies about three nautical miles southwest of the town of Anderson, providing a straightforward visual reference for pilots approaching from the northeast.
The original Anderson County Airport was founded in 1927 as a grass emergency landing field, later used for air mail delivery. Aviator Amelia Earhart visited on November 14, 1931, drawing a crowd of over 1,000 residents and is credited with inspiring local leaders to build a better airport; land three miles from downtown was purchased within a year of her visit. The new airport opened in September 1937, two months after Earhart's disappearance over the Pacific. During the Second World War the field served as an auxiliary airfield for the United States Army Air Forces, supporting combat flight training based at Greenville Army Airbase, with civilian pilot training there involving students from Clemson College; control returned to local authorities in the autumn of 1945. In the 1950s Eastern Airlines operated three or four daily departures on a route between Atlanta and Charlotte, and Eastern's World War I ace and later chief executive Eddie Rickenbacker once made an unannounced inspection visit that was featured in Life magazine. Eastern served the airport from 1947 until 1964, followed by Southern Airways from 1964 to 1974 on the same route. Commuter service continued intermittently over the following decades, including Bankair (1978 to 1984), Sunbird Airlines operating as Piedmont Commuter and later as CCAir (1985 to 1986), a return of CCAir as USAir Express (1992 to 1993), and a brief spell of air taxi service by ImagineAir in 2005.
Anderson Regional today has no scheduled airline service and no control tower, but functions as a busy general aviation field for the upstate region, drawing an estimated 14,000 visitors annually. It utilises a Category I instrument landing system for all-weather operations, and a line staff provides fuelling, aircraft storage, and pilot services. One runway was extended by 1,000 feet in 2007 to accommodate larger aircraft, and in 2018 airport authorities announced a 6.71 million dollar improvement programme covering further runway work and a new ADA-compliant general aviation terminal, which replaced the original terminal built in 1970. From 2009 to 2020 the airport hosted an annual airshow that drew an estimated 50,000 visitors over its two-day run each year.
