Bowling Green-Warren County Regional
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Bowling Green-Warren County Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City Bowling Green-Warren CO, 2 miles southeast of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 547 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 03/21, is 6,501 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 70 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 9,814 takeoffs and landings a year. About 1,107 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KBWG · observed 4:53 pm CDT (21:53 UTC), 60 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the east-southeast (110°) at 5 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 78°F (26°C), dew point 42°F (6°C)
- Altimeter 30.01 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 12:20 pm CDT (17:20 UTC), good until Wed 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the east at 6 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Tue 7:00 pm CDT (00:00 UTC): wind calm, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Wed 9:00 am CDT (14:00 UTC): wind from the southwest at 7 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, a few clouds at 25,000 feet VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KBWG 062153Z AUTO 11005KT 10SM CLR 26/06 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP159 T02560056
TAF KBWG 061720Z 0618/0718 08006KT P6SM SKC FM070000 00000KT P6SM SKC FM071400 23007KT P6SM FEW250
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BWG · ICAO KBWG
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City Bowling Green-Warren CO
- Elevation
- 547 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 6,501 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 12/30 | 3,956 × 150 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 03: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 21: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 30: threshold displaced 349 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Louisville and rco | 122.2 | Louisville · Communications provided by louisville radio on frequency 122.2 (louisville rco). |
| Bwg and automated weather (ASOS) | 127.825 | |
| Nashville and center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.85 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 270-843-8136.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 9,814, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Bowling Green from the FAA register
78 aircraft are registered to owners in Bowling Green, Kentucky: 60 piston singles, 5 business jets, 3 turboprops, 3 piston twins, 3 drones. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Kentucky.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Operations with more than 30 passenger seats 24 hour prior permission required - amgr.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 03, 21; PAPI runway 03, 21; high-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 12/30 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- First 1300 feet longl gradient slope 1.5 percent; steeper than standard for approach spd gtr than 122 kts.
- +54 feet tree dist 860 feet 200 feet L; 15:1 based on dthr.
- Longl and transverse cracking; uneven surface.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.