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Yeager Airport - Charleston, WV

Named in honor of Brigadier General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager in 1985, Yeager Airport, a commercial Airport & Central West Virginia CVB, has daily, non-stop flights to Pittsburgh - Chicago - Washington - Charlotte - Cincinnati - Atlanta - Houston - Detroit - Philadelphia – Cleveland; and is served by ASA (Delta Connection) - Atlantic Coast (United Express) - Continental Express - Mesaba (Northwest Airlink) - ComAir (Delta Connection) - US Airways/Express.

When opened in 1947, the Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.V. had approximately 225,000 square yards of paving on runways, taxiways and loading ramps; 27,000 linear feet of electric cable for field lighting; 60,000 linear feet of drainage pipe ranging from 6 to 30 inches; and 15,000 feet of telephone conduit. The access road to the new Yeager Airport was constructed as a project of the State Road Commission. Grading and draining of the road was itself a major project, requiring the removal of 300,000 cubic yards of earth. The grading alone on this big project cost approximately $4.5 million, or 34 times the cost of the site. When the bill providing a $2,750,000 special appropriation directly allocated to the new Kanawha Airport came before Congress in 1945, all of West Virginia's Senators and Representatives "went to bat" to obtain its passage.

Those who shared in this outstanding achievement were United States Senators Chapman Revercomb and Harley M. Kilgore, and Representatives Jennings Randolph, M.M. Neely, E.H. Hedrick, Cleveland Bailey, John Kee, and Hubert Ellis. In moving the more than 9,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock, 2,000,000 pounds of explosives were required for the Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.V.