Pierre Regional Airport guide

Pierre Regional Airport sits about three miles east of Pierre, the South Dakota state capital, in Hughes County. The City of Pierre owns it. The field grew out of a World War II airfield built on roughly 1,700 acres of pasture bought by the federal government in 1942, and the city took it over for public aviation after the war.

Two asphalt runways serve the field. Runway 13/31 is 6,900 feet long and Runway 7/25 is 6,880 feet, both 100 feet wide. In the year ending September 2019 the airport recorded 31,960 aircraft operations, about 88 a day. General aviation made up around 70 percent of that traffic, air taxi 23 percent, airline flights 5 percent and military 2 percent.

Scheduled passenger service is a single daily route to Denver. SkyWest flies it as United Express under a federal Essential Air Service contract. Roughly 14,700 passengers used the Denver route between May 2024 and April 2025. FedEx Feeder, operated by CSA Air, carries cargo to Sioux Falls. The current terminal opened in September 2012 and covers about 21,000 square feet. A passenger jet bridge was added in April 2018. Unscheduled airline flights with aircraft of 31 or more seats need prior permission.