Airport type Public Website www.gvairport.com Elevation 701 m | Elevation AMSL 2,301 ft / 701 m Code LWB Phone +1 304-645-3961 | |
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Owner Greenbrier County Airport Authority Serves Lewisburg, West Virginia Location Greenbrier County, West Virginia, near Lewisburg and White Sulphur Springs Address 558 Airport Rd, Lewisburg, WV 24901, USA Profiles | ||
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Greenbrier Valley Airport (IATA: LWB, ICAO: KLWB, FAA LID: LWB) is a public airport three miles (5 km) north of Lewisburg in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. It has one runway and is owned by the Greenbrier County Airport Authority. Silver Airways ("United Express") has scheduled airline flights, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program, to Washington-Dulles International Airport, which replaced Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport in summer 2012. Silver Airways also flies to Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport as an independent airline, replacing Delta Connection.
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- Greenbrier valley airport celebration montage 2010
- Greenbrier valley airport press conference
- History
- Facilities and aircraft
- Airline and destinations
- References
Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 7,153 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 4,651 in 2009 and 12,293 in 2010. It is in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which called it a non-primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008/2009 (between 2,500 and 10,000 per year).
The 2013 Federal sequester was forecasted to result in the closure of the airport's control tower which would have then required pilots to rely on air traffic controllers from other airports.
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History
During World War II the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces.
Facilities and aircraft
Greenbrier Valley Airport covers 472 acres (191 ha) at an elevation of 2,301 feet (701 m) above mean sea level. Its one runway, 4/22, is 7,003 by 150 feet (2,135 x 46 m) asphalt.
In the year ending November 30, 2011 the airport had 22,107 aircraft operations, average 60 per day: 67% general aviation, 18% air taxi, 10% scheduled commercial, and 5% military. 26 aircraft were then based at this airport: 88% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, and 4% jet.
The airport has four rental car companies, Avis, Hertz, Enterprise, and National.
Airline and destinations
The following passenger airline operate scheduled flights:
Silver Airways serves the airport with Saab 340B regional turboprop aircraft. Service ends September 30,2016.
Historically, the airport was served with jet aircraft by Piedmont Airlines followed by Air Atlanta and US Airways. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Piedmont was operating Boeing 737-200 jet service nonstop to Roanoke, VA (ROA) with direct flights continuing on to Atlanta (ATL) and New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA). Piedmont also previously served the airport with NAMC YS-11 turboprops during the mid 1970s. During the mid 1980s, Air Atlanta was flying Boeing 727 jet service nonstop to both New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) and Atlanta (ATL). In the late 1990s, US Airways was operating Fokker F100 twin jets nonstop to New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA).