Owensboro Daviess County Airport

ICAO KOWB37.7401°N 87.1668°W407 ft / 124 mMedium airport

KOWB Airport Diagram — Federal Aviation Administration · Public domain · Commons

Owensboro Daviess County Airport (IATA: OWB, ICAO: KOWB) is a medium airport in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States. It opened in Dec 1949. It has 2 runways; the longest is 8,000 ft (2,438 m). In 2025 it handled 18 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1949–1949

DEC 1949

OpenedOwensboro Daviess County Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

18/36178° / 358° · LIT

LENGTH8,000 ft2,438 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete

06/24052° / 232° · LIT

LENGTH5,000 ft1,524 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025

43K

47K

39K

37K

19K

27K

31K

21K

18K

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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Express, Contour Airlines475 km295 mi CLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · Contour Airlines623 km387 mi IADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · United Express857 km533 mi

Most destinationsUnited Express 2Contour Airlines 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from OWB. From the Wikipedia article “Owensboro–Daviess County Regional Airport” (revision of 20 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers18K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,495of 3,974 · #589 North America · #406 US Longest runway8,000 ft2,438 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,749of 29,823 · =583 North America · =438 US Elevation407 ft124 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=28,863of 43,341 · =13,618 North America · =11,441 US AgeOpened 19492026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,461of 15,079 · =2,337 North America · =2,277 US Runways21 · 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

6 channels

A/DEVANSVILLE APP/DEP126.400

CTAFCTAF120.700

GNDGND121.700

RDOLOUISVILLE RDO108.600

TWRTWR120.700

UNICUNICOM122.950