Marshall County Airport (West Virginia)

Marshall County Airport
Marshall County Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KMPG; FAA LID: MPG;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Marshall County Commission
Serves	Moundsville, West Virginia
Elevation AMSL	1,214 ft / 370 m
Runways
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	19,300
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

39°52′51″N 080°44′09″W / 39.88083°N 80.73583°W / 39.88083; -80.73583

Marshall County Airport (ICAO: KMPG, FAA LID: MPG, formerly 74D) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Moundsville, a city in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States. The airport is owned by the Marshall County Commission.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Marshall County Airport is assigned MPG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned MPG to Makini, Papua New Guinea^[3]).

Facilities and aircraft

Marshall County Airport covers an area of 96 acres (39 ha) which contains one runway designated 6/24 with a 3,302 x 60 ft (1,006 x 18 m) asphalt surface. Situated in rugged mountain terrain, the airport site is a removed mountaintop with steep slopes to all sides. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 19,300 aircraft operations, an average of 52 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% military and <1% air taxi.^[1]