Carroll County Regional Airport

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Carroll County Regional Airport Jack B. Poage Field
IATA: none – ICAO: KDMW – FAA: DMW
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Carroll County
Location		Westminster, Maryland
Elevation AMSL		789 ft / 240 m
Coordinates		39°36′30″N 077°00′28″W / 39.60833, -77.00778
Website		CarrollCountyAirport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16/34	5,100	1,554	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			153,690
Based aircraft			143
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Carroll County Regional Airport (ICAO: KDMW, FAA LID: DMW), also known as Jack B. Poage Field, is a public airport located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district of Westminster, in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The airport is owned by Carroll County Board of Commissioners. It is designated as a reliever airport for the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).^[1]^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Carroll County Regional Airport is assigned DMW by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Carroll County Regional Airport covers an area of 135 acres (55 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (16/34) measuring 5,100 x 100 ft. (1,554 x 30 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 2, 2006, the airport had 153,690 aircraft operations, an average of 421 per day: 99% general aviation, <1% air taxi and <1% military. There are 143 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single engine, 10% multi-engine, 4% jet aircraft and 1% helicopters.^[1]