Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport

Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport
A Now Defunct Falcon Air MD-83 deboarding at KBWG Airport.
IATA: BWG – ICAO: KBWG – FAA LID: BWG
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Bowling Green & Warren County
Location Bowling Green, Kentucky
Elevation AMSL 547 ft / 167 m
Coordinates 36°57′52″N 086°25′11″W / 36.96444°N 86.41972°W / 36.96444; -86.41972
Website www.bgwcairport.org
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
3/21 6,500 1,981 Asphalt
12/30 3,955 1,205 Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 62,640
Based aircraft 74

Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport (IATA: BWG, ICAO: KBWG, FAA LID: BWG) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) southeast of the central business district of Bowling Green, a city in Warren County, Kentucky, United States. This airport is publicly owned by the City of Bowling Green and Warren County.[1] The site was established in 1934 as a military airfield.[2] It is not currently served by scheduled airline service, though service was once available on US Airways Express dba Air Kentucky. Mainline air carrier flights serving the airport were operated by Eastern Airlines until the late 1960s.[3] Eastern served Bowling Green with Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop and Convair 440 propliners.

Facilities and aircraft

Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport covers an area of 525 acres (212 ha) which contains two runways:[1]

For 12-month period ending November 30, 2005, the airport had 62,640 aircraft operations, an average of 171 per day: 96% general aviation, 3% military, 1% air taxi and <1% scheduled commercial. There are 74 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single engine, 9% multi-engine (7) and 5% jet aircraft.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for BWG (Form 5010 PDF), retrieved 2007-03-15
  2. ↑ Bowling Green - Warren County Regional Airport: About Us
  3. ↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, June 17, 1967 Eastern Airlines system timetable

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