# Raleigh County Memorial Airport (BKW / KBKW)

**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.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbkw

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: BKW / KBKW
- FAA: BKW
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Beaver, West Virginia, United States
- Opened: Sep 1952
- Elevation: 2,504 ft / 763 m
- Coordinates: 37.7873, -81.1242
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 6,750 ft / 2,057 m
- Instrument procedures: 5 approaches
- Passengers: 30,466 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/New_York
- Website: http://www.flybeckley.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_County_Memorial_Airport (7 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1654308
- Weather station: KBKW · WMO 72412
- Ident: KBKW

## Timeline

- Sep 1952: Raleigh County Memorial Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01/19 | 6,750 ft / 2,057 m | 150 ft / 46 m | Asphalt | 007° / 187° | yes |
| 10/28 | 5,001 ft / 1,524 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 098° / 278° | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 4,534 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 7,009 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 9,500 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 9,103 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 22,021 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 14,531 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 37,602 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 39,070 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 36,270 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 35,648 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 30,466 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

3 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [PKB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kpkb.md) Mid Ohio Valley Regional Airport · United States · 109 mi / 175 km · Contour Airlines
- [CLT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kclt.md) Charlotte Douglas International Airport · United States · 178 mi / 287 km · Contour Airlines

### Seasonal (1)

- [MYR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmyr.md) Myrtle Beach International Airport · United States · 309 mi / 498 km · Contour Airlines

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from BKW, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- LF [Contour Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/contour-airlines) · 3

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 30K (2025) | #2,281 of 3,974 | #531 in North America | #362 in US |
| Longest runway | 6,750 ft / 2,057 m | =3,709 of 29,858 | =917 in North America | =698 in US |
| Elevation | 2,504 ft / 763 m | #6,907 of 43,403 | #3,251 in North America | #2,502 in US |
| Age | Opened 1952 | =3,844 of 15,079 | =2,673 in North America | =2,612 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/D | CHARLESTON APP/DEP | 118.950 |
| ASOS | ASOS | 121.550 |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 124.650 |
| RDO | ELKINS RDO | 117.700 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 123.000 |

## Nearby airports

- [BLF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kblf.md) Mercer County Airport · 34 mi / 55 km
- [LWB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/klwb.md) Greenbrier Valley Airport · 40 mi / 64 km
- [CRW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kcrw.md) Yeager Airport · 48 mi / 77 km
- [ROA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kroa.md) Roanoke–Blacksburg Regional Airport · 71 mi / 114 km
- [HTS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/khts.md) Tri-State Airport / Milton J. Ferguson Field · 88 mi / 141 km

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Raleigh County Memorial Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raleigh_County_Memorial_Airport&oldid=1372546822), revision of 1 Sep 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbkw/data