Raleigh County Memorial Airport
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Raleigh County Memorial Airport[1][2] (IATA: BKW, ICAO: KBKW, FAA LID: BKW) is three miles east of Beckley, in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It is owned by the Raleigh County Airport Authority.[2] The airport is used for general aviation and sees one scheduled passenger airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
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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 | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.FlyBeckley.com | ||||||||||||||
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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 categorize it as general aviation based in enplanements in 2010 (under 2,500).
The airport opened in 1950–52 with a 4200-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 5000 ft in the 1950s, and 6750-ft runway 1 was added between 1975 and 1979.
In 2005 the airport was the least busy airport with scheduled airline service in the United States, with 2,578 passengers that year.[6]