CAE

Columbia Metropolitan Airport

ICAO KCAE33.9382°N 81.1230°W236 ft / 72 mMedium airport
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Columbia Metropolitan Airport - South Carolina
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Columbia Metropolitan Airport (IATA: CAE, ICAO: KCAE) is a medium airport in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. It opened in Jun 1942. It has 2 runways; the longest is 8,601 ft (2,622 m). In 2025 it handled 1.4 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1942–2008
JUN 1942
OpenedColumbia Metropolitan Airport opens.
19 SEP 2008
Disaster2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash.4 killed
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · 1 helipad · FAA diagram PDF
Columbia Metropolitan Airport
11/29105° / 285° · LIT
LENGTH8,601 ft2,622 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete
05/23045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH8,001 ft2,439 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
1.0M
1.1M
1.1M
1.1M
1.2M
1.3M
565K
860K
1.0M
1.2M
1.3M
1.4M
141516171819202122232425

Routes

11 destinations · 1 country
Year-round9
CLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · American Eagle143 km89 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Connection, Delta Air Lines307 km191 miIADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · United Express646 km401 miDCARonald Reagan Washington National AirportUnited States · American Eagle657 km408 miPHLPhiladelphia International AirportUnited States · American Eagle841 km523 miEWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Express970 km603 miLGALaGuardia AirportUnited States · Delta Connection, American Eagle994 km618 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Express, American Eagle1,073 km667 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Eagle1,480 km920 mi
Most destinationsAmerican Eagle 7United Express 3Delta Connection 2Delta Air Lines 1American Airlines 1Air Cargo Carriers 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CAE. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Columbia Metropolitan Airport” (revision of 27 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1.4M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#716of 3,974 · #175 North America · #123 USLongest runway8,601 ft2,622 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#2,020of 29,823 · #448 North America · #332 USElevation236 ft72 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=32,971of 43,341 · =15,111 North America · =12,721 USAgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =924 North America · =885 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

7 channels
A/DAPP/DEP124.150
ATISATIS120.150
CLDCLNC DEL119.750
GNDGND121.900
RDOANDERSON RDO122.650
TWRTWR119.500
UNICUNICOM122.950