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Washington Dulles International Airport (/ ˈ d ʌ l ɪ s / DUL-iss) (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD, FAA LID: IAD) – commonly known by its former name of Dulles International Airport, by its airport code of IAD, or simply as Dulles Airport – is an international airport in the Eastern United States, located 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Washington, D.C., in Loudoun and Fairfax counties in ...
United Express Flight 6291 was a regularly scheduled United Express flight from Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. to Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. It was a service operated by Atlantic Coast Airlines on behalf of United Express.
Presidential was still operating as an independent air carrier at this time and was thus not yet providing codeshare flight services for Continental Airlines, Pan Am [6] or United Airlines. Virtually all of these destinations were served on a nonstop basis with jet aircraft from the airline's hub located at Washington Dulles International ...
From December 1978 to May 1980, Braniff International Airways leased 11 Concordes, five from AF and six from BA. [20] These were used on subsonic flights between Dallas–Fort Worth and Dulles International Airport, flown by Braniff flight crews. [21] AF and BA crews then took over for the continuing supersonic flights to London and Paris. [22]
These are the last 10 deadly airline crashes to occur in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. National Transportation Board and the Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network: 2009
A Republican proposal to change the name of Washington Dulles International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport deserves the scrutiny it has received so far, writes Jay Parini.
March 6 – The last flight of the SR-71 Blackbird takes place, when Lieutenant Colonels Ed Yielding (pilot) and Joseph Vida (reconnaissance systems officer) fly U.S. Air Force SR-71A serial number 61-17972 from Palmdale, California, to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, setting a Los Angeles, California-to-Washington, D.C. world record time of 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds at ...
The following is a list of defunct airlines of the United States.However, some of these airlines have ceased operations completely, changed identities and/or FAA certificates and are still operating under a different name (e.g. America West Airlines changed to use the identity of US Airways in 2005 – which itself also changed identity to American Airlines in 2015).