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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
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 ...
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport; Long title: An Act to rename the Washington National Airport located in the District of Columbia and Virginia as the “Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport”. Enacted by: the 105th United States Congress: Effective: February 6, 1998: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 105–154 (text) Statutes at Large
Within the ADIZ is an even more sensitive zone designated the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Flight Restricted Zone (DC FRZ). The DC FRZ extends approximately 13–15 nmi (15–17 mi; 24–28 km) around the DCA VOR/DME. Flight within the FRZ is restricted to governmental, certain scheduled commercial and a limited set of waivered flights.
Potomac Airfield covers an area of 50 acres (20 ha), and features one paved asphalt runway (6/24) measuring 2,665 x 40 ft (812 x 12 m). In the year ending September 14, 2023, there were 12,054 operations, average 33 per day.
There are 13 heliports within Washington, D.C., the federal capital district of the United States, as of 2021. [1] [2] As of 2002, there are also 32 others in the Washington metropolitan area. [3] Of this total, 22 belong to hospitals, 12 to other corporations or private owners, 10 government, three military, and one public. [3]
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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.