Woodward Field Airport is located in Camden, South Carolina, and is a public-use airport owned by Kershaw County. Commercial planes do not visit the Woodward Field Airport; rather, the airport is used by the local aviation community. For recreational aviators, the airport offers hangars, tiedowns, plane maintenance, jet fuel and two asphalt runways. As of September 2010, there are 36 planes based at the Woodward Field Airport: 32 single-engine planes, two multi-engine planes, one jet plane and one helicopter. Though its operation area is small, as of June 2010 the airport conducted approximately 100 airplane operations per day.
El Porvenir Airport is located in Boykin, South Carolina, about nine miles from the Camden city center. The airport is privately owned and located on 120 acres. There is only one single-engine plane based at the airport, but it coordinates its flights with the Woodward Field Airport. Both airports are in Kershaw County. There are two runways at the El Porvenir Airport, though both are turf, not paved. Take-off and landing areas are private-use and coordinated by the airport's owner.
The Columbia Metropolitan Airport is the closest large airport to Camden; it is about 44 miles from the Camden city center. The airport offers valet parking, a cell phone waiting lot and free wireless Internet. Forty non-stop flights leave the airport on two runways each day. According to the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, it serves more than 1.2 million passengers and processes 168,000 tons of cargo each year. The airlines that have service from the Columbia airport are Delta, U.S. Airways, Continental, United and American Eagle.
