Marshall County Airport (West Virginia)

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Coordinates: 39°52′51″N 080°44′09″W / 39.88083, -80.73583

Marshall County Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KMPG – FAA: MPG
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Marshall County Commission
Serves		Moundsville, West Virginia
Elevation AMSL		1,214 ft / 370 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
6/24	3,302	1,006	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			19,300
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

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]).

[edit] 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. 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]