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Ashland Regional Airport (KDWU) is a public-use general aviation field in Worthington, Kentucky, some six nautical miles northwest of downtown Ashland. Owned by the Ashland Regional Airport Board, it offers a single long asphalt runway and serves local charter, private and training traffic in the Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area.
Ashland Regional Airport, identified as KDWU (FAA designator DWU), is a public airport located in Worthington, Greenup County, Kentucky, owned and operated by the Ashland Regional Airport Board. It serves the Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area with general aviation, air taxi and occasional military traffic, and hosts community events such as car and air shows. For a visiting VFR pilot it is a straightforward, uncontrolled field with a single generous runway and no instrument landing system.
The airport sits in Worthington, Greenup County, Kentucky, about six nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Ashland in neighbouring Boyd County. It lies within the wider Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area and falls under the overlying jurisdiction of Huntington Approach/Departure control.
Ashland Regional Airport has one physical runway, 10/28, of hard surface construction measuring 5,587 feet in length. Both directions are lit, making the runway usable for arrivals and departures after dark as well as by day. There is no instrument landing system at the field.
Pilots should monitor 122.8 MHz, the CTAF/UNICOM frequency, for traffic advisories and airport operations. Automated weather is available on the AWOS-3 frequency of 132.425 MHz. Huntington Approach and Departure control operates on 128.4 MHz, and clearance delivery is on 121.7 MHz. There is no instrument landing system at KDWU.
The airport lies roughly six nautical miles northwest of downtown Ashland, Kentucky, providing a useful reference for pilots inbound from the southeast.
Ashland Regional Airport opened in 1953 as Ashland-Boyd County Airport, originally featuring a 5,000-foot runway with a 3,000-foot clearance. In its earlier years the field was used extensively by the oil manufacturing company Ashland Inc., prior to that company's corporate headquarters relocating from Russell to Covington.
The airport covers an area of 170 acres at an elevation of 545 feet above mean sea level and remains open to public use, supporting local charter and private aircraft operations. In a twelve-month survey period ending July 2007 the field recorded about 4,500 aircraft operations, averaging 12 per day, split between general aviation, air taxi and military movements, with 47 aircraft then based there across single-engine, multi-engine, jet and helicopter types.
