Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned DWU by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[2]
It opened in 1953 as Ashland-Boyd County Airport and featured a 5,000 ft (1,500 m) runway with a 3,000 ft (910 m) clearance.[3]
The airport was once used extensively by the oil manufacturing company Ashland Inc. before the company's corporate headquarters was moved from RusselltoCovington.
Ashland Regional Airport covers an area of 170 acres (69 ha) at an elevation of 546 feet (166 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 10/28 which measures 5,602 by 100 feet (1,707 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending July 23, 2007, the airport had 4,500 aircraft operations, an average of 12 per day: 96% general aviation, 2% air taxi and 2% military. At that time there were 47 aircraft based at this airport: 77% single-engine, 15% multi-engine, 4% jet and 4% helicopter.[1]
