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The Falls Church Airpark was a pair of unpaved landing strips located in Fairfax County, Virginia. The license for the airport was granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia on July 25, 1945 [4] but the airport was not available for general use until 1946 when it opened with a single grass runway, 2,650' long.
Davison Army Airfield or Davison AAF (IATA: DAA, ICAO: KDAA, FAA LID: DAA) is a military use airport of the United States Army in Fairfax County, Virginia, serving adjacent Fort Belvoir. [2] Located fifteen miles (24 km) southwest of Washington, D.C., the facility was named for noted World War II aviation engineer Brig. Gen. Donald Angus ...
This is a list of airports in Indiana (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.
Washington, D.C.: Serves all of the District of Columbia and the Navy Annex, plus the Virginia counties of Fauquier, Arlington, Prince William, Fairfax (City and County) and Loudoun. It also serves cities and towns including Quantico, Warrenton, Falls Church, Alexandria, Manassas, Leesburg and Vienna.
Indianapolis Center is the 12th busiest ARTCC in the United States. In 2024, Indianapolis Center handled 2,097,778 aircraft operations. [3] Indianapolis Center covers approximately 73,000 square miles [4] of the Midwestern United States, including parts of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport covers 445 acres (180 ha); its one runway, 15/33, is 4,004 x 100 ft (1,220 x 30 m) asphalt. For the year ending December 31, 2016, the airport had 24,590 aircraft operations, an average of 67 per day: 80% general aviation , 17% air taxi and 3% military.
The 1970-1971 Virginia State Airport Directory sketch of the airport showing the location of both the 42' tall movie screen across Route 7 from the 17/35 runway and the 50' tall power line on the opposite side of the road. The airport was the site of numerous accidents and mishaps, none of which were fatal.
A historical marker in Bailey's Crossroads. Hachaliah Bailey, the founder of one of America's earliest circuses, which in time evolved into the Bailey component of what became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, moved to Northern Virginia in 1837, bought the land surrounding the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Falls Church, Virginia ...