KBKW is the ICAO code for Raleigh County Memorial Airport (IATA BKW), located in Beaver, WV.
Raleigh County Memorial Airport (KBKW) is a medium airport in Beaver, WV. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KBKW or IATA code BKW. It sits in North America.
Raleigh County Memorial Airport 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 6,750 ft (2,057 m), a midsize and super-midsize-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Citation Longitude, Challenger 350, and Gulfstream G280. In practice this comfortable for most midsize and super-mid charter equipment.
Raleigh County Memorial Airport lies at 2,504 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 33 departing and 151 arriving private-jet legs at KBKW across the next six months of operator inventory. 5 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KBKW 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.