Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Airport

Coordinates: 37°44′20″N 087°10′01″W / 37.73889°N 87.16694°W / 37.73889; -87.16694

Owensboro-Daviess County Airport
IATA: OWB – ICAO: KOWB – FAA LID: OWB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Owensboro City & Daviess County
Serves		Owensboro, Kentucky
Elevation AMSL		406 ft / 124 m
Website		www.owb.net
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
18/36	8,000	2,438	Asphalt/Concrete
5/23	5,000	1,524	Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			60,688
Based aircraft			47
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Owensboro-Daviess County Airport (IATA: OWB, ICAO: KOWB, FAA LID: OWB) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Owensboro, a city in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is owned by both the city and county.^[1] The airport is mostly used for general aviation and is served by two commercial airlines.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 4,680 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2006, up from 3,611 enplanements in 2005.^[2] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011, it was classified as commercial service - non-primary because it had between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year.^[3]

Scheduled commercial service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. RegionsAir operating as AmericanConnection provided flights to St. Louis until it ceased operations in March 2007. The next EAS contract was awarded to Big Sky Airlines, operating as Delta Connection, with service to Cincinnati scheduled to begin in June 2007. Big Sky began service in November 2007 and abruptly ended operations in January 2008.^[4] Great Lakes Aviation was awarded a contract but ultimately cancelled.^[5] Owensboro was without scheduled air service from January 7, 2008, until August 31, 2009 when Pacific Wings operating as KentuckySkies was awarded the Essential Air Service contract offering flights to Nashville. On June 30, 2011 Pacific Wings notified the USDOT of their intent to end service at OWB, saying that they were "unable to procure counter or gate space at Nashville International Airport on reasonable terms," and on October 20, 2011 American Airlines code-share partner Cape Air was selected to operate flights to their hub at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport^[6] with service beginning on December 5, 2011.

On February 19, 2009, Allegiant Air began service from Owensboro to Orlando Sanford International Airport, and now operates flights to Las Vegas as well.

Facilities and aircraft

Owensboro-Daviess County Airport covers an area of 826 acres (334 ha) which contains two asphalt and concrete paved runways: 18/36 measuring 8,000 x 150 ft (2,438 x 46 m) and 5/23 measuring 5,000 x 100 ft (1,524 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2007, the airport had 60,688 aircraft operations, an average of 166 per day: 90% general aviation, 5% military, 5% air taxi and <1% scheduled commercial. There are 50 aircraft based at this airport: 74% single-engine (37), 12% multi-engine (6), 12% jet and 2% ultralight.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Allegiant Air	Las Vegas, Orlando-Sanford
KentuckySkies	Nashville [ends December 4]
Cape Air	St. Louis [begins December 5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} FAA Airport Master Record for OWB (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
2. ^ FAA Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data: 2006
3. ^ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011
4. ^ Lee Denney and Matt Weafer (2008-01-10). "Airline Departing, flights expected to continue". Messenger-Inquirer. http://mattweafer.blogspot.com/2008/01/airline-departing-flights-expected-to.html. Retrieved 2008-01-20. 
5. ^ "Air service awarded to Great Lakes; flights may be to St. Louis". Jackson Sun. 2008-02-03. http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080204/NEWS01/80204009. Retrieved 2008-02-03. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ "Docket DOT-OST-2000-7855 ORDER TENTATIVELY SELECTING CARRIER". USDOT. 2011-10-20. http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DOT-OST-2000-7855-0134. Retrieved 2011-11-02. 

External links

• Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Airport (official web site)
• [1] Pacific Wings Airlines website
• [2] Allegiant Air website
• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective 20 October 2011
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KOWB
  • ASN accident history for OWB
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures for KOWB

• Essential Air Service documents (Docket Number 7855) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
  • Order 2007-3-5: Selecting Big Sky Transportation Co. (d/b/a Big Sky Airlines) to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) two-year period from June 1, 2007, through May 31, 2009
  • Order 2006-12-25: Requesting proposals to providing essential air service (EAS) for the two-year period beginning June 1, 2007
  • Order 2005-6-14: Reselecting RegionsAir, Inc. (d/b/a American Connection) to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) for a new two-year period from June 1, 2005, through May 31, 2007