KOWB is the ICAO code for Owensboro Daviess County Airport (IATA OWB), located in Owensboro, KY.
Owensboro Daviess County Airport (KOWB) is a medium airport in Owensboro, KY. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KOWB or IATA code OWB. It sits in North America.
Owensboro Daviess County 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 8,000 ft (2,438 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.
Owensboro Daviess County Airport sits near sea level at 407 ft.
Local operations run on America/Chicago. 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 153 departing and 17 arriving private-jet legs at KOWB across the next six months of operator inventory. 2 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KOWB 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.