Winchester Regional
OKV · KOKV · Winchester, Virginia · Frederick County · map
Winchester Regional is a public-use airport, 3 miles southeast of Winchester, Virginia, 726 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 5,498 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 111 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 43,100 takeoffs and landings a year. About 6 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KOKV · observed 6:55 pm EDT (22:55 UTC), -1 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 54°F (12°C), dew point 39°F (4°C)
- Altimeter 30.09 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KOKV 062255Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 12/04 A3009 RMK AO2
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 OKV · ICAO KOKV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 726 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 10:00 pm local
- 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
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1937
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 5,498 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 14: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 27 ft high 664 ft from the end
- Runway 32: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), tree 60 ft high 1,986 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.975 | |
| Clearance delivery | 126.15 | |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (CLTCH) · Hyper and star arriving from headings 241 to 330 | 120.45 | |
| Okv and aWOS-3PT | 124.85 | |
| Trstn and star | 126.75 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 540-662-6970.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 43,100, 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 Winchester from the FAA register
57 aircraft are registered to owners in Winchester, Virginia: 47 piston singles, 6 piston twins, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 1 turboprop, 1 business jet. 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 Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 11 since 1982, 0 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
- In open prior 1959.
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 32; runway end identifier lights runway 14; high-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude 1980 feet above ground level for turboprop and jet aircraft; all other aircraft pattern altitude 980 feet above ground level.
- Callout service available. Fees may apply.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- MED-FLIGHT: ireg departure pattern.
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.