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Greater Cumberland Regional Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
775 ft / 236 m

Elevation
  
236 m

Serves
  
Cumberland, Maryland

Code
  
CBE

Phone
  
+1 304-738-0002

Greater Cumberland Regional Airport

Operator
  
Potomac Highlands Airport Authority

Location
  
Wiley Ford, West Virginia

Website
  
www.cumberlandairport.com

Address
  
165 Terminal Loop, Wiley Ford, WV 26767, USA

Similar
  
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Greater Cumberland Regional Airport (IATA: CBE, ICAO: KCBE, FAA LID: CBE) is a public airport in the town of Wiley Ford (population 1,095) in Mineral County, West Virginia. It is two miles (3 km) south of Cumberland (population 21,518) in Allegany County, Maryland. Although the airport is in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia, the FAA lists this as a Maryland airport.

Contents

On the second level of the airport terminal is the Cohongaronta Gallery (Cohongaronta being a Shawnee name for the Potomac River) with an array of displays on the history of the Potomac Highlands area. The centerpiece of the gallery is a 40% scale replica of the Wright Brothers 1903 Wright Flyer. A 70-foot-long (21 m) time line highlights dates and events for the Potomac Highlands region. The gallery is open to the public during terminal business hours.

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Facilities and aircraft

Greater Cumberland Regional Airport covers 314 acres (127 ha) and has two asphalt runways: 5/23, 5,048 x 150 ft (1,539 x 46 m) and 11/29, 2,442 x 150 ft (744 x 46 m).

In the year ending August 2, 2006 the airport had 14,300 aircraft operations, an average of 39 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. 69 aircraft are based at this airport: 81% single engine, 7% gliders, 6% multi-engine, 3% jet aircraft and 3% helicopters.

Racing

The Cumberland Greater Regional Airport was used for a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) airport course run in Wiley Ford, West Virginia (just south of Cumberland, Maryland) in the 1950s and 1960s.

Currently National Road Autosport holds Autocross events at the airport on a monthly basis.

History

The airport was served by US Airways Express carrier Air Midwest until September 2001.

The airport was served by a spin-off of the former Pan Am Airways group from 2001 to May 2003.

References

Greater Cumberland Regional Airport Wikipedia