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In 2018 the management team at Orchid Cellmark Ltd acquired the company from LabCorp. The company is now one of the major providers of forensic services to police forces in England and Wales and has laboratories in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and Chorley, Lancashire. On the 20th of August 2024, Cellmark was acquired by Eurofins Scientific. [1]
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.
Virginia Highlands Airport (IATA: VJI [2], ICAO: KVJI, FAA LID: VJI) is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) west of the central business district of Abingdon, a city in Washington County, Virginia, United States. It is owned by the Virginia Highlands Airport Authority. [1]
The two highways continue northeast through Washington County, where they pass Virginia Highlands Airport before entering the town of Abingdon. At the west end of town, US 11 and US 19 intersect SR 140 (Jonesboro Road), a connector between the U.S. Highways and I-81 that also serves Virginia Highlands Community College. The U.S. highways ...
View of Abingdon c. 1845 Barter Theatre. The region was long the territory of varying cultures of indigenous peoples, including the Chisca and Xualae.From the late 17th-century, it was occupied by the Cherokee Nation, whose territory extended from the present-day area of borders of Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky through the spine of North Carolina and later into Georgia.
For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2014, the airport had 8,838 aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% military, and 1% air taxi. At that time there were 34 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single- engine , 9% multi-engine, 6% ultralight , and 6% helicopter .
Washington metropolitan area airports with the Washington-Virginia Airport (on left) and showing the one-mile lateral area around the airport. Crowded airspace in the Washington DC area resulted in the Federal Aviation Agency establishing special flight restrictions which were published in the 1961 Code of Federal Regulations as part of Title 14 – Aeronautics and Space. [13]
Campbell Field Airport (FAA LID: 9VG) is a public use general aviation airport located in the Weirwood, Virginia, United States hamlet on public highway route 617. Serving the aviation community on Virginia's Eastern Shore , the airport covers 147 acres (59 ha) and has two turf runways .