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Bridgewater Airport is VA, VBW, is owned by Dynamic Aviation, a large defensive contractor with a huge fleet of King Air's, Dash 8's, Citations, and Sikorsky's (and probably more).

I have some family near there, and was going to fly in to visit, but after looking at the aerial shots, the field's short runway has displaced threshold on runway 33, however it also has a taxiway extending an additional 1300 feet in line with the runway when approaching 33 (meaning increasing the non official runway by over 50%).  It's not part of the runway but seems to be extended so that should a longer runway be necessary for some of Dynamic's larger aircraft, it's possible to use it as per pilot's and airport manager's discretion.

Also, there are the remains of a ton of aircraft on the field (mainly king airs - probably part of the original government purchase/bid for parts to keep their 60ish king airs flying).  Almost every aircraft parked and visible is a turbine twin.

Gas is $5.99 per gallon. Is this a field that does not want normal GA traffic?  I'll call the manger before attempting the flight, but it is a public use field so I can still use it, but it seems like it has a big "go away" sign on it.

Does anyone have any familiarity with the Bridgewater Airport?  Am I way off base?  I figured I'd ask here, then call the airport manager.

Obviously I can use the field as it's public, but if it's best not to I won't.  My gut is I'm worrying about nothing, but I've never seen a public use airport set up this way.

-Seth

 

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