Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport
WBW · KWBW · Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania · Luzerne County · map
Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Luzerne, 3 miles north of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 544 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 07/25, is 3,375 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 56 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 33,125 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA WBW · ICAO KWBW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Luzerne
- Elevation
- 544 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12W
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 3,375 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09/27 | 2,193 × 100 ft | Asphalt and grass, good |
- Runway 07: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 25: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 120 ft high 2,286 ft from the end
- Runway 09: threshold displaced 672 ft, trees 94 ft high 1,107 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.3 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 33,125, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Wilkes-Barre from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Wilkes-Barre, PA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 1 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.
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- +152 feet transmission lines 6000 feet from runway 25 thld 585 feet L marked with red spheres.
- Activate PAPI runway 07/25; medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 - the common traffic frequency. Runway 07/25 preset low intst to activate higher intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 09/27 closed winter months.
- Runway 09/27 first 544 feet runway 27 asphalt, rmndr grass.
- Runway 09/27 marked with 3 feet white cones. Runway 09; displaced thld marked with three white cones each side.
- Approach ratio 18:1 to dthr.
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.