North Central West Virginia Airport — Bridgeport, United States

Engineers reshaped an entire mountaintop to build CKB, leveling a ridge in north-central West Virginia to create enough flat ground for a functional runway in terrain that offered few natural alternatives. Long known as Benedum Airport before adopting its current name, the facility serves the Clarksburg, Bridgeport, and Fairmont communities with scheduled regional jet service connecting to hub airports such as Washington Dulles and Charlotte. Rolling Appalachian terrain surrounds the airport on all sides, occasionally complicating approaches during poor weather. Beyond passenger service, the airport hosts general aviation traffic and some cargo activity, playing a modest but locally important role in a region where mountainous geography makes ground travel to larger airports considerably slower than flying.