| Rocky Mount–Wilson Regional Airport | |
| Iata: | RWI |
| Icao: | KRWI |
| Faa: | RWI |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner: | Rocky Mount–Wilson Airport Authority |
| City-Served: | Rocky Mount / Wilson, North Carolina |
| Elevation-F: | 158 |
| Coordinates: | 35.8564°N -77.8919°W |
| R1-Number: | 4/22 |
| R1-Length-F: | 7,099 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2017 |
| Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (year ending 3/31/2017) |
| Stat1-Data: | 29,810 |
| Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft |
| Stat2-Data: | 41 |
| Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Rocky Mount–Wilson Regional Airport is a public airport located seven miles (11 km) southwest of the central business district of Rocky Mount, a city located in Nash and Edgecombe Counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is also north of Wilson, a city in Wilson County. The airport is owned by the Rocky Mount–Wilson Airport Authority.
Piedmont Airlines served RWI from 1961 to 1980.[2] CCAir, operating as US Airways Express, later provided scheduled service to RWI, but traffic fell after the arrival of Southwest Airlines at nearby Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) in 1999, which made flights from RDU relatively inexpensive.[3] The US Airways Express service was suspended in March 2001 and replaced with shuttle bus service to RDU.[4]
Rocky Mount–Wilson Regional Airport covers an area of 364acres which contains one asphalt paved runway (4/22) measuring 7,099 x 150 ft (2,164 x 46 m).
For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2017, the airport had 29,810 aircraft operations, an average of 82 per day: 94% general aviation, 4% air taxi, 2% military and <1% scheduled commercial. There was at the time 41 aircraft based at this airport: 27 single engine, 7 multi-engine, 4 jet, 2 helicopter, and 1 glider.