Charleston Memorial Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1965
- State
- West Virginia
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- February 28, 1965
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Charleston Memorial Airport
- Elevation
- 943 ft (288 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.37306, -81.59534
A drag race was held on one of the airport’s two runways on Sunday, February 28, 1965.
Background
The airport is now West Virginia International Yeager Airport, three miles east of downtown Charleston on a hilltop more than 300 feet above the Elk and Kanawha valleys, with steep drops on every side. It also hosts McLaughlin Air National Guard Base and the C-130s of the 130th Airlift Wing.