Carroll County Regional Airport Jack B. Poage Field
IATA: none ICAO: KDMW FAA LID: DMW
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Carroll County
Location	Westminster, Maryland
Elevation AMSL	789 ft / 240 m
Coordinates	39°36′30″N 077°00′28″W / 39.60833°N 77.00778°W / 39.60833; -77.00778
Website	https://carrollcountyregionalairport.com/
Map
DMW Location of airport in Maryland / United States Show map of Maryland DMW DMW (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 16/34 5,100 1,554 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations 153,690 Based aircraft 143
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Carroll County Regional Airport (ICAO: KDMW, FAA LID: DMW), also known as Jack B. Poage Field, is a public airport located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district of Westminster, in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The airport is owned by Carroll County Board of Commissioners. It is designated as a reliever airport for the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).^[1][2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Carroll County Regional Airport is assigned DMW by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA due to the small size of the airport and its main use being general aviation.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Carroll County Regional Airport covers an area of 475 acres (192 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (16/34) measuring 5,100 x 100 ft (1,554 x 30 m).^[1] The airport also has a flight school called Dream Flight School.

For the 12-month period ending May 2, 2006, the airport had 153,690 aircraft operations, an average of 421 per day: 99% general aviation, <1% air taxi and <1% military. There are 143 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single engine, 10% multi-engine, 4% jet aircraft and 1% helicopters.^[1]

There are currently no plans to bring commercial service to the airport. The nearest airport with commercial service is Baltimore BWI airport, serving flights to many US cities and with a few flights to/from Europe.

The airport does not have air traffic control.

Amenities

The airport is near MD-97. It is also located in the vicinity of Carroll County Pond. It is near a populated area of Carroll County.

Fatal airshow accident

On September 23, 1990, 62-year-old pilot Jack B. Poage was killed when his red-and-white Pitts S-2B crashed into a grassy field near the main runway of the airport after he failed to leave enough altitude to recover from a flat-spin maneuver during his plane stunt. The field where he crashed was later named after him in his honor.^[4] The crash was caught on camera by a witness.