Lawrence County Airpark (IATA: HTW[2], ICAO: KHTW, FAA LID: HTW) is a public use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central business district of Chesapeake, a village in Lawrence County, Ohio, United States.
In June of that year, John Paul Riddle of the Cincinnati-based Embry-Riddle Company completed negotiations for the establishment of an airport for the cities of the Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia tri-state area.
The company sought to expand their growing air mail and passenger routes east, via the Ohio River valley.
Eventually several houses and a barn were removed, though two structures were initially left intact on the north side of the field for use as office and flight crew facilities.
Approximately 45,000 people attended the opening events throughout the weekend, which included aerial stunts and rides ($10 each).
There was a raffle for a free flight to Cincinnati's Lunken Field, and a folded-wing aircraft carrying local government and civic leaders Taxied across the bridge, led a parade around Huntington, West Virginia, then returned to the airport, extended its wings, and took them on an aerial tour.
Embry-Riddle closed its flight school and withdrew service the next year, the result of disputes with the Huntington Chamber of Commerce over the building of a hangar facility.
The airline had been stopping an H-I-C when weight conditions allowed - by 1945 the runway was too short for AA's DC-3s to take off fully loaded.
[3] Lawrence County Airpark covers an area of 86 acres (35 ha) at an elevation of 568 feet (173 m) above mean sea level.