Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport

Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport (IATA: SHD, ICAO: KSHD, FAA LID: SHD) is in the census-designated place of Weyers Cave, Virginia, United States, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of the Town of Grottoes and 12 miles (19 km) northeast of the City of Staunton.

[2] It is used for general aviation and is served by one airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 7,746 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[3] 8,364 in 2009 and 10,408 in 2010.

[2] In 2021 the airport had 37,204 aircraft operations, average 102 per day: 95% general aviation, 4% commercial, and <1% military.

[2] Rockingham and Augusta counties and the cities of Harrisonburg, Waynesboro and Staunton formed a commission to build a regional airport in the 1950s.

[6] In 1993 Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport Commission closed its 25-year-old aircraft maintenance shop because it was barely breaking even.

[11] Free bus service between the airport and Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Waynesboro began in March 2004.

[26] In 2011 Roanoke's representative to Congress Bob Goodlatte advocated ending a federal subsidy program called Essential Air Service that made it financially viable for private airlines to offer service to small airports such as Shenandoah Valley.

[27] In 2012 Colgan Air ended service to Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport after the carrier's parent company declared bankruptcy in 2012.