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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA), a public airport serving Washington, D.C., which opened in 1941; College Park Airport (IATA: CGS), a public airport serving the College Park/Riverdale Park/University Park area, is the oldest public airport still operating in the United States
Reagan National is also home to Coast Guard Air Station Washington. [10] The airport served over 25.4 million passengers in 2023, the second most of any of the three airports serving the region, and a new passenger record for the airport. [11] The airport's main runway is the busiest in the nation. [12]
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 ...
The authority's headquarters is located less than 1 mile (1.609 km) from Reagan National Airport in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. [2] [8] A third major airport in the Washington region, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) is located 9 miles (14.48 km) south of downtown Baltimore.
The term "hub" is used by the FAA to identify busy commercial service airports. Large hubs are the airports that each account for at least one percent of total U.S. passenger enplanements. Medium hubs are defined as airports that each account for between 0.25 percent and 1 percent of the total passenger enplanements. [1]
The mobile lounge was an innovative feature of the Washington Dulles terminal design by Eero Saarinen. [1] Saarinen promoted the mobile lounge concept with a short animated film by Charles and Ray Eames. [2] Dulles Airport was the realization of the concepts expressed in the film.
POINTE DU HOC, France (Reuters) -Near the cliff that U.S. Army Rangers scaled 80 years ago on D-Day, President Joe Biden on Friday compared the threats posed by Nazi Germany to those facing the ...
An aerial view of BWI Marshall Airport with downtown Baltimore in the background in September 2009. Planning for a new airport on 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) to serve the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area began in 1944, just prior to the end of World War II, when the Baltimore Aviation Commission announced its decision that the best location to build a new airport would be on a 2,100-acre ...