Raleigh County Memorial Airport (IATA: BKW, ICAO: KBKW, FAA LID: BKW) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Beckley, a city in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It is owned by the Raleigh County Airport Authority. The airport is used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,630 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 2,626 enplanements in 2009, and 2,429 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011â€"2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008 (between 2,500 and 10,000) but would categorize it as general aviation based in enplanements in 2010 (under 2,500).
In 2005, the airport was the least busy airport with scheduled airline service in the United States, with 2,578 passengers using the facility that year.
Facilities and aircraft
Firefighter training at Beckley-Raleigh County Memorial Airport 25 April 2012 1 of 3 - Firefighter training at Beckley-Raleigh County Memorial Airport 25 April 2012 1 of 3.
Raleigh County Memorial Airport covers an area of 1,433 acres (580 ha) at an elevation of 2,504 feet (763 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 is 6,750 by 150 feet (2,057 x 46 m) and 10/28 is 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).
For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2011, the airport had 21,904 aircraft operations, an average of 60 per day: 89% general aviation, 7% air taxi, and 4% military. At that time there were 59 aircraft based at the airport: 52.5% single-engine, 30.5% multi-engine, 7% jet, and 10% helicopter.
Airline and destination
The following airline offers scheduled passenger service at the airport:
FedEx Feeder is operated at the field by Mountain Air Cargo.
Destination statistics
References
Other sources
External links
- Raleigh County Memorial Airport, official site
- Aerial image as of April 1996 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for BKW, effective February 1, 2018
- AC-U-KWIK information for KBKW
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for BKW
- AirNav airport information for KBKW
- ASN accident history for BKW
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
