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A 1935 drawing of the proposed site for the new airport, then known as Municipal Air Port The airport's main terminal in July 1941 The airport's terminal in July 1941, seen from the apron with a taxiing Eastern Airlines Douglas DC-3 in the foreground The airport's terminal as seen from the airfield in 1944 The airport in 1970 The National Mall ...
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]
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
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]
Hoover Field was an early airport serving the city of Washington, D.C. It was constructed as a private airfield in 1925, but opened to public commercial use on July 16, 1926.
This is a list of airports in Missouri (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
On June 7, 1987, Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (then known as Washington National Airport) were transferred to MWAA under a 50‑year lease authorized by the U.S. Congress in the Metropolitan Washington Airports Act of 1986, Title VI of Public Law 99‑500, which was signed into law by ...
Map showing the location of Washington, D.C. in relation to its bordering states of Maryland and Virginia Washington, D.C. is located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States at 38°53′42″N 77°02′11″W / 38.89500°N 77.03639°W / 38.89500; -77.03639 , the coordinates of the Zero Milestone , on The Ellipse