Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport

Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport (KJHW) is a medium airport in Jamestown, NY. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KJHW or IATA code JHW. It sits in North America.

Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 5,300-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 5,300 ft (1,615 m), a light-jet-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Phenom 300, Citation CJ4, and Learjet 75. In practice this limits operations to light jets, turboprops, and short-field-capable aircraft.

Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport lies at 1,723 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/New_York. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 84 departing and 178 arriving private-jet legs at KJHW across the next six months of operator inventory. 10 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KJHW are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Chautauqua County/Jamestown Airport at Robert H. Jackson Field is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Jamestown, in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. It is mostly used for general aviation.