KSSI is the ICAO code for St Simons Island Airport (IATA SSI), located in St Simons Island, GA.
St Simons Island Airport (KSSI) is a medium airport in St Simons Island, GA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KSSI or IATA code SSI. It sits in North America.
St Simons Island Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 5,584-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.
The longest runway measures 5,584 ft (1,702 m), a midsize and super-midsize-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Citation Longitude, Challenger 350, and Gulfstream G280. In practice this comfortable for most midsize and super-mid charter equipment.
St Simons Island Airport sits near sea level at 19 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 65 departing and 186 arriving private-jet legs at KSSI across the next six months of operator inventory. 14 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KSSI 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.