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This is a list of airports in West Virginia (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport has had airline service through the years into the early 1970s, including Allegheny, Lake Central, and Cumberland Airlines. The last Lake Central timetable before merging with Allegheny in 1968 showed three flights a day, with one to Elkins, WV, and two to Baltimore, using Nord 262 prop jets.
It is owned by the Mingo County Airport Authority. [1] The airport was built on a reclaimed mine site near Varney, West Virginia, [3] and opened in 2012. [4] [5] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. [6]
The Cumberland Greater Regional Airport was used for a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) airport course run in Wiley Ford, West Virginia (just south of Cumberland, Maryland) in the 1950s and 1960s. Currently National Road Autosport holds autocross events at the airport on a monthly basis. [2]
Greenbrier Valley Airport covers 472 acres (191 ha) at an elevation of 2,302 feet (702 m). Its one runway, 4/22, is 7,003 by 150 feet (2,135 x 46 m) asphalt. [1]In the year ending December 31, 2019, the airport had 7,765 aircraft operations, average 21 per day: 56% general aviation, 25% air taxi, 18% airline, and 2% military. 18 aircraft were then based at this airport: 15 single-engine, 2 ...
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in West Virginia (1 P) Pages in category "Airports in West Virginia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The airport is off Interstate 81 at exit 10 and U.S. Route 11, not far from Northern Virginia, South Central Pennsylvania, and the Eastern Pandhandle of West Virginia. The Federal Aviation Administration says this airport had 29,105 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2019, [3] 14,373 in 2020, 23,227 in 2021 and 32,197 in 2022. [4]
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.