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It was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941, a short distance southeast. After the war, in 1948, the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital. [19] Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region. [20]
It is the closest airport to Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, the 24th-busiest airport in the nation, the busiest airport in the Washington metropolitan area, and the second busiest in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area. The airport opened in 1941 and was originally named Washington National Airport. Part of the ...
Hoover Field, a now-defunct airport which served Washington, D.C., from 1925 to 1933 (its merger with Washington Airport) Washington Airport, a now-defunct airport which served Washington, D.C., from 1927 to 1933 (its merger with Hoover Field) Washington-Hoover Airport, a now-defunct airport which served Washington, D.C., from 1933 to 1941
1956 Paris DC-6 crash: Paris-Orly Airport, France Crashed on takeoff [16] See 1956 Paris DC-6 crash. Gheorghe Caranda: Romania 1912 Army officer, first Romanian airplane accident casualty Farman: Bucharest, Romania Plane crash during training on Cotroceni Airfield Mel Carnahan: United States 2000 Governor of Missouri: Cessna 335: Goldman ...
U.S. International Transportation Exposition, better known as Transpo '72, was a trade show held on 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of land at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., for nine days from May 27 to June 4, 1972.
Washington Airport was the second major airport to serve the city of Washington, D.C., in the United States.Located in Arlington, Virginia, near the intersection of the Highway Bridge and the Mount Vernon Parkway (in a site now occupied by The Pentagon's south parking lots, Metrobus bus bays, and a portion of Interstate-395 highway). [1]
The crash killed four people and injured 32 others on the ground. The pilot, Captain R. L. Bown, of Seattle, Washington, successfully ejected at 5,000 feet, landed on a car, suffered only bruising. Japanese media questioned why Bown was not able to steer the aircraft away from the residential area before ejecting. [207] 9 May