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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Wood County Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Wood County Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Parkersburg, West Virginia and Marietta, Ohio | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 543 Co. Route 31/1, Williamstown, West Virginia, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 859 ft / 262 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°20′42″N 081°26′22″W / 39.34500°N 81.43944°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | flymovra | ||||||||||||||
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Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport (IATA: PKB[2], ICAO: KPKB, FAA LID: PKB) is seven miles northeast of Parkersburg, in Wood County, West Virginia.[1] It is owned by the Wood County Airport Authority,[1] and is also known as Wood County Airport or Gill Robb Wilson Field. It serves the Mid-Ohio Valley area, which includes the Ohio cities of Marietta, Belpre and the West Virginian cities of Williamstown, Parkersburg, and Vienna. Its scheduled passenger services are subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. The airport itself is located along Interstate 77, just south of the border with Ohio.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Airport had 5,275 passenger boardings (enplanements) in the calendar year 2008,[3] 5,930 in 2009, and 5,477 in 2010.[4] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport.[5]
The first airline flights were American DC-3s in 1946. The airline All American arrived in 1949 and Piedmont in 1955; Lake Central replaced American in 1961. The first jets were operated by Allegheny at the end of 1976; Piedmont pulled out in 1979 and Allegheny Commuter replaced Allegheny in 1980.
- ^ a b c FAA Airport Form 5010 for PKB PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective August 10, 2023.
- ^ "IATA Airport Code Search (PKB: Parkersburg / Wood County)". International Air Transport Association. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
- ^ "Enplanements for CY 2008" (PDF, 1.0 MB). faa.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
- ^ "Enplanements for CY 2010" (PDF, 189 KB). faa.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
- ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). faa.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on September 27, 2012.