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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
This is a list of airports in Virginia (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.
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 ...
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is an independent airport authority, created with the consent of the United States Congress to oversee management, operations, and capital development of the two major airports serving the U.S. national capital: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport.
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.
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[3] [4] It is a general aviation airport, and there is no scheduled airline service available. Potomac Airfield is located within the Washington, D.C. Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ). In order to take off or land at the airport, pilots must apply for a regional security clearance through the airport's website, or the FAA .
As of 2021, it is the second-busiest airport in the Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area behind Reagan National Airport and the 28th-busiest airport in the United States. [10] Dulles has the most international passenger traffic of any airport in the Mid-Atlantic outside the New York metropolitan area , including approximately 90% of the ...