Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field

Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field (KMGW) is a medium airport in Morgantown, WV. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KMGW or IATA code MGW. It sits in North America.

Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 5,199 ft (1,585 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.

Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field lies at 1,248 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/New_York. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 92 departing and 217 arriving private-jet legs at KMGW across the next six months of operator inventory. 8 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KMGW 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.

Morgantown Municipal Airport is three miles east of Morgantown, in Monongalia County, West Virginia. It is also known as Walter L. Bill Hart Field. It sees one passenger airline, United Express operated by Skywest Airlines, which is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.