Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport is seven miles northeast of Parkersburg, in Wood County, West Virginia. It is owned by the Wood County Airport Authority and is also known as Wood County Airport or Gill Robb Wilson Field. It serves the Mid-Ohio Valley area which includes the Ohio cities of Marietta and Belpre and the West Virginia cities of Williamstown, Parkersburg and Vienna. It has scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. The Federal Aviation Administration says the airport had 5,275 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 5,930 in 2009 and 5,477 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport. The first airline flights were American DC-3s in 1946. All American arrived in 1949 and Piedmont in 1955; Lake Central replaced American in 1961. The first jets were Allegheny at the end of 1976; Piedmont pulled out in 1979 and Allegheny Commuter replaced Allegheny in 1980. Facilities The airport covers 1,103 acres (446 ha) at an elevation of 859 feet (262 m). It has two asphalt runways: 3/21 is 7,240 by 150 feet (2,207 x 46 m) and 10/28 is 4,002 by 150 feet (1,220 x 46 m). In the year ending September 30, 2011 the airport had 34,485 aircraft operations, average 94 per day: 62% general aviation, 23% military, 14% air taxi, and <1% airline. 56 aircraft were then based at the airport: 68% single-engine, 20% military, 5% multi-engine, 5% jet, and 2% helicopter. Airline and destination Statistics Destination statistics References Other sources Essential Air Service documents (Docket DOT-OST-2005-20734) from the U.S. Department of Transportation: Notice (March 22, 2005): of Air Midwest, Inc. of its intent to discontinue scheduled non-subsidized Essential Air Service between Parkersburg, West Virginia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, effective June 20, 2005. Order 2005-4-19 (April 19, 2005): prohibiting Air Midwest, Inc., from terminating its unsubsidized, scheduled air service at Parkersburg, Morgantown and Clarksburg/Fairmont, West Virginia, beyond the end of its 90-day notice periods, and requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing replacement essential air service (EAS) at the communities, with or without subsidy. Order 2005-9-8 (September 9, 2005): selecting RegionsAir, Inc. to provide subsidized essential air Service (EAS) at Parkersburg, Morgantown and Clarksburg/Fairmont, West Virginia for a two-year period and establishing a combined subsidy rate of $1,051,333 per year for service consisting of 18 nonstop round trips each week between Parkersburg and Cincinnati,