Morgantown Municipal Airport (IATA: MGW, ICAO: KMGW, FAA LID: MGW) is a city owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (4 mi, 6 km) east of the central business district of Morgantown, a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. The airport is also known as Walter L. Bill Hart Field. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,249 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2010, a decrease of 4.1% from the 11,727 enplanements in 2009. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).
While the airport's runway cannot handle larger airplanes, it has filed a request with the Federal Aviation Administration to lengthen the runway.
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