On the second level of the airport terminal is the Cohongaronta Gallery (Cohongaronta being a Shawnee name for the Potomac River) with an array of displays on the history of the Potomac Highlands area. The centerpiece of the gallery is a 40% scale replica of the Wright Brothers 1903 Wright Flyer. A 70-foot-long (21 m) time line highlights dates and events for the Potomac Highlands region. The gallery is open to the public during terminal business hours.
Facilities and aircraft
Greater Cumberland Regional Airport covers 314 acres (127 ha) and has two asphaltrunways: 5/23, 5,047 x 150 ft (1,538 x 46 m) and 11/29, 3,000 x 150 ft (914 x 46 m).[1]
In the year ending August 26, 2022, the airport had 14,300 aircraft operations, an average of 39 per day: 97% general aviation and 2% military. 58 aircraft were based at this airport: 45 single engine, 5 gliders, 4 multi-engine, 1 jet and 3 helicopter.[1]
Racing
Pumpkin Carve Autocross, October 25, 2003
The Cumberland Greater Regional Airport was used for a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) airport course run in Wiley Ford, West Virginia (just south of Cumberland, Maryland) in the 1950s and 1960s.
Currently National Road Autosport holds autocross events at the airport on a monthly basis.[2]
US Airways Express, operated by Crown Airways, began flights between Cumberland and Pittsburgh on June 3, 1991.[4] The US Airways Express operator was changed to Liberty Express in 1994, to Mesa Airlines in 1998, then to Air Midwest in 1999. US Airways Express discontinued the flights on September 8, 2001 because of a lack of demand; the decision to end the flights had been made before the September 11 attacks.[5]
