Rostraver Airport is a public use airport in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Geography

It is located five nautical miles (9 km) east of the central business district of Monongahela, Pennsylvania in Rostraver Township. It is operated by the Westmoreland County Airport Authority, which also operates the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity Township, Pennsylvania. This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of FWQ by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code.

Facilities and aircraft

Rostraver Airport covers an area of 300 acre at an elevation of 1,228 feet (374 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 8/26 which measures 4,002 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending May 3, 2021, the airport had 43,920 aircraft operations, an average of 120 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 40 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, and 1 glider.

Accidents