Jim Hamilton L.B. Owens Airport

Jim Hamilton L.B. Owens Airport (KCUB) is a medium airport in Columbia, SC. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KCUB or IATA code CUB. It sits in North America.

Jim Hamilton L.B. Owens Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 5,011-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 5,011 ft (1,527 m), a light-jet-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Phenom 300, Citation CJ4, and Learjet 75. In practice this limits operations to light jets, turboprops, and short-field-capable aircraft.

Jim Hamilton L.B. Owens Airport sits near sea level at 193 ft.

Local operations run on America/New_York. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 35 departing and 74 arriving private-jet legs at KCUB across the next six months of operator inventory. 5 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KCUB are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Jim Hamilton–L.B. Owens Airport, known locally as Owens Field, is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the central business district of Columbia, in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. In 2008, the airport was renamed in honor of former airport manager Jim Hamilton. It was formerly known as Columbia Owens Downtown Airport.