BKW

Raleigh County Memorial Airport

ICAO KBKW37.7873°N 81.1242°W2,504 ft / 763 mMedium airport
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Raleigh County Memorial Airport (IATA: BKW, ICAO: KBKW) is a medium airport in Beaver, West Virginia, United States. It opened in Sep 1952. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,750 ft (2,057 m). In 2025 it handled 30 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1952–1952
SEP 1952
OpenedRaleigh County Memorial Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Raleigh County Airport Terminal
01/19007° / 187° · LIT
LENGTH6,750 ft2,057 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
10/28098° / 278° · LIT
LENGTH5,001 ft1,524 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
5K
7K
10K
9K
22K
15K
38K
39K
36K
36K
30K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BKW. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Raleigh County Memorial Airport” (revision of 1 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers30K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,281of 3,974 · #531 North America · #362 USLongest runway6,750 ft2,057 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,709of 29,823 · =917 North America · =698 USElevation2,504 ft763 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=6,903of 43,341 · #3,247 North America · #2,498 USAgeOpened 19522026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,844of 15,079 · =2,673 North America · =2,612 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

5 channels
A/DCHARLESTON APP/DEP118.950
ASOSASOS121.550
AWOSAWOS 3124.650
RDOELKINS RDO117.700
UNICCTAF/UNICOM123.000