Yeager Airport (IATA: CRW, ICAO: KCRW, FAA LID: CRW) is a public-use airport located three nautical miles (4 mi, 6 km) east of the central business district of Charleston, a city in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. It is owned by the Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority. The airport is co-located with Charleston Air National Guard Base, home to nine C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Air National Guard's 130th Airlift Wing (130 AW), an Air Mobility Command (AMC)-gained unit of the West Virginia Air National Guard.
The airport sits on a hilltop over 300 feet (about 100 m) above the valleys of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers, and the hill drops off sharply on all sides. Due to the airfield's unusual location, passengers flying into Yeager enjoy a scenic approach of either downtown Charleston, or the rolling hills to the north and east of the field.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 264,818 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2010, an increase of 11.2% from the 238,190 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).
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