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Many pilots regard the Potomac River approach pattern at National Airport as one of the more interesting landing approaches in the United States [60] Boeing flew a 787-8 Dreamliner into DCA in 2011. It is one of the only wide-body aircraft to ever land at the airport. Reagan National Airport has some of the strictest noise restrictions in the ...
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.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is a multi-jurisdictional independent airport authority, created with the consent of the United States Congress and the legislature of Virginia to oversee management, operations, and capital development of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International 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; Washington Executive Airport (FAA: W32), a public use airport near Clinton, Maryland, served until 2022 [1]
Dulles originally used airport code DIA, the initials of Dulles International Airport. When handwritten, it was often misread as DCA, the code for Washington National Airport, so in 1968 Dulles's code was changed to IAD. [73]
Northwest Arkansas National Airport: P-S 598,787 Fort Smith: FSM: FSM KFSM Fort Smith Regional Airport: P-N 45,369 Little Rock: LIT: LIT KLIT Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (Adams Field) (was Little Rock National) P-S 827,922 Texarkana: TXK: TXK KTXK Texarkana Regional Airport (Webb Field) P-N 26,888 CALIFORNIA: Arcata/Eureka: ACV ...
UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2019; Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes; Great Circle Mapper - IATA, ICAO and FAA airport codes
In July 1961, the official presidential aircraft was stationed here, known as "Air Force One" when the president is on board. Before 1961, the presidential airplane had been kept at Washington National Airport and Bolling AFB. In 1963, the Naval Air Facility (NAF), originally established at the former NAS Anacostia in 1919, moved to Andrews.