Brandywine Airport

Air Charter Services at Brandywine Regional Airport in West Chester, PA

Jet Charter Philadelphia provides on-demand air charter service at Brandywine Airport (ICAO: KOQN; FAA: OQN), a general aviation airport located three miles NE of West Chester, PA.

Courtesy of Brandywine Airport

Brandywine Regional is a single-runway airport suitable for light aircraft and entry level jets.

It’s designated as a reliever airport and a regional general aviation airport by the FAA, and is privately owned by the New Brandywine Airport Club Inc.

There is a one FBO (fixed-base operator) located on-site, New Brandywine Aero, Inc., with additional facilities for aircraft repair and flight training on both rotary aircraft & fixed-wing planes.

Airport Details

Brandywine Regional opened in 1940 as West Chester Airport, after West Chester’s first airport, Sky Haven Airport, was ordered to close due to noise complaints and civil lawsuits.

The airport operated with two grass runways until the 1980s, when the airport underwent significant improvements, including the paving of Runway 9/27, as well as the taxiways and ramps, aloing with the constructions of a new terminal building. The neighboring industrial park continued to expand, which led to the removal of Runway 18/36, and in 1982, the airport was renamed Brandywine Airport.

In 2006, several projects were completed to improved safety and night operations: Runway 9/27 was resurfaced, new night lighting was added, a precision approach path indicator (PAPI) was added to the runway, and Taxiway A was lengthened to the western end of the runway.

In addition, the airport commissioned a new AWOS weather reporting system in 2007. Once the AWOS was operational, the airport’s FAA location identifier was changed to OQN from N99, and the airport was assigned the ICAO identifier KOQN.  Since then, the airport received PennDOT grants to replace the fuel piping system, install a new airport beacon, and rehabilitate Taxiway A.

• ICAO: KOQN
• FAA: OQN
• Elevation: 466 ft (142 m)\
• Coordinates: 39°59′24″N 075°34′55″W
• Website: brandywineairport.com

Runway 9/27

• Length: 3,347 ft (1,020 m)
• Surface: Asphalt