Raleigh County Memorial Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Beckley, a city in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It is owned by the Raleigh County Airport Authority. The airport is used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,630 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 2,626 enplanements in 2009, and 2,429 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008 (between 2,500 and 10,000) but would categorize it as general aviation based in enplanements in 2010 (under 2,500).In 2005, the airport was the least busy airport with scheduled airline service in the United States, with 2,578 passengers using the facility that year.Facilities and aircraftRaleigh County Memorial Airport covers an area of 1,433 acres (580 ha) at an elevation of 2,504 feet (763 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 is 6,750 by 150 feet (2,057 x 46 m) and 10/28 is 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).
