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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Raleigh County Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Raleigh County, West Virginia | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 176 Airport Road, Beaver, West Virginia, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,504 ft / 763 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°47′14″N 081°07′27″W / 37.78722°N 81.12417°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.FlyBeckley.com | ||||||||||||||
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Raleigh County Memorial Airport[1][2] (IATA: BKW, ICAO: KBKW, FAA LID: BKW) is approximately three miles east of the city of Beckley, in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It is both owned and operated by the Raleigh County Airport Authority.[2] The airport is used for general aviation and sees one scheduled passenger airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 3,630 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[3] 2,626 in 2009 and 2,429 in 2010.[4] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008, (between 2,500 and 10,000)[5] but would later categorize it as general aviation based on the number of enplanements in 2010 (under 2,500).
The airport opened in 1950–52 with a 4,200-foot, east-west runway; the first airline flights were Piedmont DC-3s in 1952. (The last Piedmont YS-11 left in 1981.) The runway was extended to 5,000 ft in the 1950s, and the 6,750 ft runway 1/19 was constructed between 1975 and 1979.
In 2005, the airport was the least busy airport in the United States that also had an airline service, with a total of 2,578 passengers served during that year.[6]
- ^ a b Raleigh County Memorial Airport, official website
- ^ a b c FAA Airport Form 5010 for BKW PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective August 10, 2023.
- ^ "Enplanements for CY 2008" (PDF, 1.0 MB). CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
- ^ "Enplanements for CY 2010" (PDF, 189 KB). CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
- ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF, 2.03 MB). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010.
- ^ Reed, Dan (September 26, 2006). "U.S. airports, by the numbers". USA Today. Retrieved June 25, 2008.