Eastern WV Regional Airport - Martinsburg, WV - Airports on Waymarking.com

Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport (IATA: MRB, ICAO: KMRB, FAA LID: MRB), also known as Shepherd Field, is a civilian-owned, public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) south of the central business district of Martinsburg, a city in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. It is owned by the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport Authority or EWVRAA. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, in which the Federal Aviation Administration categorized it as a reliever airport.

The airport covers an area of 998 acres (411 ha) at an elevation of 565 feet (172 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 08/26 with a primarily asphalt surface with portions composed of portland cement concrete (PCC) measuring 8,815 by 150 feet (2,687 x 46 m). This runway also features paved asphalt shoulders of 25 feet on either side laterally and two additional 400-foot paved blast pads on either runway end, making the total paved surface dimensions approximately 9,615 feet in length and 200 feet in width (2,931 x 61 m), by far the largest runway in the state of West Virginia.

For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2018, the airport had 29,303 aircraft operations, an average of 80 per day: 79% general aviation, 20% military, and 1% air taxi. At that time there were 93 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 2% helicopter, 1% civilian jet and 9% military.

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Type: Regional ICAO Airport Code: KMRB IATA Airport Code: MRB FAA Identifier: MRB

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