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Airport type
  
Public

Website
  
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5,500
  
1,676

Elevation
  
221 m

Serves
  
Winchester, Virginia

Elevation AMSL
  
726 ft / 221 m

14/32
  
5,500

Code
  
WGO

Phone
  
+1 540-662-5786

Winchester Regional Airport

Owner
  
Winchester Regional Airport Authority

Address
  
491 Airport Rd, Winchester, VA 22602, USA

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Winchester Regional Airport (IATA: WGO, ICAO: KOKV, FAA LID: OKV) is a public use airport owned by the Winchester Regional Airport Authority and located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Winchester, a city in Frederick County, Virginia, United States. It was first recognized by the state as a licensed commercial airport in 1937 and was known as Winchester Municipal Airport until 1987.

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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned OKV by the FAA and WGO by the IATA (which assigned OKV to Okao Airport in Papua New Guinea).

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Facilities and aircraft

Winchester Regional Airport covers an area of 375 acres (152 ha) at an elevation of 726 feet (221 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 14/32 which measures 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m). The runway supports instrument landing approaches, with the localizer located on the northwest side of the airport.

For the 12-month period ending May 30, 2007, the airport had 36,574 aircraft operations, an average of 100 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% air taxi. At that time there were 108 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 18% multi-engine, 2% jet, 1% helicopter and 1% ultralight.

References

Winchester Regional Airport Wikipedia