KPKB Mid Ohio Valley Regional Airport VFR

  • Name
    Mid Ohio Valley Regional Airport
  • ICAO / IATA / GPS
    KPKB / PKB / KPKB
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    9:08 am (EST)
  • Municipality
    Parkersburg
  • Coordinates
    39° 20′ 42″ N 81° 26′ 21″ E
  • Elevation
    858 ft (262 m MSL)

About Mid Ohio Valley Regional Airport

Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport (IATA: PKB, ICAO: KPKB, FAA LID: PKB) is seven miles northeast of Parkersburg, in Wood County, West Virginia. It is owned by the Wood County Airport Authority and is also 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 has scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the 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.

The first airline flights were American DC-3s in 1946. All American arrived in 1949 and Piedmont in 1955; Lake Central replaced American in 1961. The first jets were Allegheny at the end of 1976; Piedmont pulled out in 1979 and Allegheny Commuter replaced Allegheny in 1980.

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