Raleigh County Memorial Airport

Raleigh County Memorial Airport
IATA: BKW ICAO: KBKW FAA LID: BKW
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Raleigh County Airport Authority
Serves	Beckley, West Virginia
Elevation AMSL	2,504 ft / 763 m
Coordinates	37°47′14″N 081°07′27″W / 37.78722°N 81.12417°W / 37.78722; -81.12417Coordinates: 37°47′14″N 081°07′27″W / 37.78722°N 81.12417°W / 37.78722; -81.12417
Website	www.FlyBeckley.com
Map
BKW Show map of West Virginia BKW Show map of the US Location of airport in West Virginia / United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 1/19 6,750 2,057 Asphalt 10/28 5,001 1,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Aircraft operations 21,904 Based aircraft 59
Sources: Airport and FAA

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 2011–2015, 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.

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).