Raleigh County Memorial Airport Explained
| Raleigh County Memorial Airport |
| Iata: | BKW |
| Icao: | KBKW |
| Faa: | BKW |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner: | Raleigh County Airport Authority |
| City-Served: | Raleigh County, West Virginia |
| Location: | 176 Airport Road, Beaver, West Virginia, United States |
| Elevation-F: | 2,504 |
| Website: | www.FlyBeckley.com |
| Coordinates: | 37.7872°N -81.1242°W |
| Pushpin Map: | USA West Virginia#USA |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Label: | BKW |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 10 |
| Mapframe-Wikidata: | yes |
| R1-Number: | 1/19 |
| R1-Length-F: | 6,750 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| R2-Number: | 10/28 |
| R2-Length-F: | 5,001 |
| R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2022 |
| Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (year ending 4/30/2022) |
| Stat1-Data: | 23,181 |
| Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft |
| Stat2-Data: | 33 |
| Footnotes: | Sources: Airport[1] and FAA[2] |
Raleigh County Memorial Airport 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. 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]
Facilities
The airport covers 1,433 acres (580 ha) at an elevation of 2,504 feet (763 m). It has two asphalt 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).
In the year ending April 30, 2022, the airport had 23,181 aircraft operations, which was an average of 63 per day: 85% general aviation, 6% air taxi, and 9% military. 33 aircraft were then based at the airport: 21 single-engine, 7 multi-engine, 4 jet, and 1 helicopter.
Airline and destinations
Cargo
FedEx Feeder is operated at the field by Mountain Air Cargo. UPS Airlines is operated by Air Cargo Carriers.
Statistics
See also
Other sources
- Essential Air Service documents (Docket DOT-OST-1997-2761) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
- Order 2004-6-14 (June 18, 2004): selecting Colgan Air, Inc., d/b/a US Airways Express, to continue providing essential air service at Beckley and Bluefield/Princeton, West Virginia, for the two-year period beginning August 1, 2004, at an annual subsidy of $2,017,064.
- Order 2006-7-2 (July 3, 2006): selecting Colgan Air, Inc., d/b/a US Airways Express, to provide essential air service at Beckley, West Virginia, for a new two-year period beginning August 1, 2006, at a subsidy of $1,930,759 annually.
- Order 2008-6-14 (June 10, 2008): re-selecting Pinnacle Airlines, Corp. d/b/a Colgan Air, Inc., to continue to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Beckley, West Virginia, for the two-year period beginning August 1, 2008, at the annual subsidy rate of $2,092,844.
- Order 2010-6-25 (June 29, 2010): re-selecting Colgan Air, Inc. to provide essential air service (EAS) at Clarksburg/Fairmont and Morgantown, WV, for a combined annual subsidy of $2,976,438, and at Beckley, WV, for an annual subsidy of $2,313, 457, for the two-year period from August 1, 2010, through July 31, 2012. Also selecting Gulfstream International Airlines, Inc., to provide EAS at Parkersburg, WV/Marietta, OH, at an annual subsidy rate of $2,642,237, for a two-year period beginning when the carrier inaugurates full EAS through the end of the 24th month thereafter. The total annual subsidy for all four communities is $7,923,132.
- Order 2012-4-32 (April 30, 2012): selecting Silver Airways to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) at Beckley, Clarksburg/Fairmont ("Clarksburg") and Morgantown, West Virginia, for a combined annual subsidy of $5,968,744 ($2,512,494 for Beckley; $3,456,250 for Clarksburg and Morgantown), for the two-year period beginning when the carrier begins full EAS at all three communities.
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.flybeckley.com/ Raleigh County Memorial Airport
- . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective August 10, 2023.
- Web site: Enplanements for CY 2008 . PDF, 1.0 MB . CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data . Federal Aviation Administration . December 18, 2009 .
- Web site: Enplanements for CY 2010 . PDF, 189 KB . CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data . Federal Aviation Administration . October 4, 2011 .
- Web site: 2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A . PDF, 2.03 MB . National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems . Federal Aviation Administration . October 4, 2010 .
- News: U.S. airports, by the numbers . Dan . Reed . . September 26, 2006 . June 25, 2008.
- Web site: RITA | BTS | Transtats. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. January 2017. May 15, 2017.
