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Mid Ohio Valley Regional Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Code
  
PKB

Phone
  
+1 304-464-5113

Elevation AMSL
  
859 ft / 262 m

Elevation
  
262 m

Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport

Owner
  
Wood County Airport Authority

Operator
  
Wood County Airport Authority

Serves
  
Parkersburg, West Virginia and Marietta, Ohio

Location
  
Wood County, West Virginia, U.S.

Address
  
543 Co Rte 31/1, Williamstown, WV 26187, USA

Landing at mid ohio valley regional airport


Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport (IATA: PKB, ICAO: KPKB, FAA LID: PKB) is a public use airport located six nautical miles (11 km) northeast of the central business district of Parkersburg, in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. It is owned by the Wood County Airport Authority and is known as Wood County Airport or Gill Robb Wilson Field. It serves the Mid-Ohio Valley area which includes the Ohio cities of Marietta and Belpre and the West Virginia cities of Williamstown, Parkersburg and Vienna. It is mostly used for general aviation, but also has scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

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As per the Federal Aviation Administration, this airport had 5,275 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 5,930 in 2009, and 5,477 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport.

United express saab 340b takeoff from mid ohio valley regional airport


Facilities and aircraft

Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport covers an area of 1,103 acres (446 ha) at an elevation of 859 feet (262 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: 3/21 is 7,240 by 150 feet (2,207 x 46 m) and 10/28 is 4,002 by 150 feet (1,220 x 46 m).

For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2011, the airport had 34,485 aircraft operations, an average of 94 per day: 62% general aviation, 23% military, 14% air taxi, and <1% scheduled commercial. At that time there were 56 aircraft based at this airport: 68% single-engine, 20% military, 5% multi-engine, 5% jet, and 2% helicopter.

References

Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport Wikipedia