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Rostraver Airport
Rostraver Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KFWQ; FAA LID: FWQ;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Westmoreland County Airport Authority
Serves	Monongahela, Pennsylvania
Location	Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania
Elevation AMSL	1,228 ft / 374 m
Coordinates	40°12′35″N 079°49′53″W / 40.20972°N 79.83139°W
Map
	FWQ Location of airport in Pennsylvania FWQ FWQ (the United States)
Runways
Statistics (2021)
Aircraft operations (year ending 5/3/2021)
Aircraft operations (year ending 5/3/2021)	43,920
Based aircraft	45
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Rostraver Airport (ICAO: KFWQ, FAA LID: FWQ, formerly P53) is a public use airport in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.^[1]

Geography

It is located five nautical miles (9 km) east of the central business district of Monongahela, Pennsylvania^[1] 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Rostraver Airport covers an area of 300 acres (120 ha) 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).^[1]

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.^[1]

Accidents

On April 12, 2017, John Graham III, CEO of Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, was killed in a plane crash while practicing touch-and-go landings alone due to wind gust.^[4]