Eastern WV Rgnl/Shepherd Field
MRB · KMRB · Martinsburg, West Virginia · Berkeley County · map
Eastern WV Rgnl/Shepherd Field is a public-use airport, 4 miles south of Martinsburg, West Virginia, 565 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 8,815 feet of asphalt and concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MRB · ICAO KMRB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 565 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 1200-0400z++; ot by notam
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1938
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 8,815 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: PAPI, four lights on the left, 8,215 ft available for landing
- Runway 26: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 1,000 ft, 7,815 ft available for landing, tree 60 ft high 765 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 124.3 | Martinsburg |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.8 | Martinsburg |
| Clearance delivery When mrb tower closed | 132.075 | Martinsburg |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (CLTCH) · Departure procedure (JDUBB) | 126.825 | Martinsburg |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Martinsburg |
| Mrb and automated weather (ASOS) | 119.925 | |
| Martinsburg and rco | 122.2 | Martinsburg |
| Hyper and star · Prtzl and star · Waynz and star arriving from headings 331 to 090 | 126.1 | Martinsburg |
| Trstn and star | 126.75 | Martinsburg |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 304-264-0988.
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 Martinsburg from the FAA register
25 aircraft are registered to owners in Martinsburg, West Virginia: 23 piston singles, 2 piston twins. 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 West Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 13 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
- When the control tower closed, activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 26; runway end identifier lights runway 08; PAPI runway 08 and 26; high-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency.
- Landing fee for aircraft gtr than 5000 pounds gross weight (military, fed, state, based aircraft exempt).
- Pattern altitude: rectangular 1600 feet above sea level (1035 feet above ground level) light and rotary wing aircraft; 2100 feet above sea level (1535 feet above ground level) for hvy aircraft; overhead 2100 feet above sea level (1535 feet above ground level).
- See gen rmk for addnl WT brgs.
- Approach ratio 29:1 at dthr.
- Runway 26 first 590 feet concrete, middle 7125 feet asphalt, last 1100 feet concrete.
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Taxiway B closed from fuel farm south.
- Addnl runway 08/26 WT brgs: 2S-175; 2D/D1-568; 2T-585; C5-840.
- Taxiway D closed past pvt hangar 1750 feet south of taxiway east.
- FAA rescue and firefighting (ARFF) index D/nfpa cat 8; index east/cat 10 equip available.
- Military: caution: bash phase II in effect from 1 oct to 30 apr.
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.