List of airports in Virginia

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 which were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.

List

Note: This list includes two airports which serve the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, but are actually located in Virginia: Reagan National and Dulles International. Both airports are operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

Descriptions of each column can be found below in the Notes section.

Airport names show in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines.

Notes

* CITY is the city generally associated with the airport.
* FAA is the FAA Location Identifier, which may be the same as the IATA airport code.
* IATA is the IATA airport code; those which do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
* ICAO is the ICAO airport code.
* AIRPORT is the official airport name.
* ROLE is one of four FAA airport categories, based on the 2007-2011 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Report and updated for calendar year 2006 enplanements:
** PR: Commercial Service - Primary are publicly owned airports which receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings each year.
** CS: Commercial Service - Non-Primary are publicly owned airports which receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
** RL: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
** GA: General Aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.
* ENPL. is the number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2006, as per FAA records.

See also

* Essential Air Service
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References

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
* [http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/airports/airport_safety/airportdata_5010/ FAA Airport Data (Form 5010)] from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from [http://www.gcr1.com/5010web/ AirportIQ 5010] .
* [http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/airports/planning_capacity/npias/ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)] for 2007-2011, as published October 2, 2006.
* [http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/ FAA Passenger Boarding Data] for 2006, as published November 26, 2007.

State:
*Virginia Department of Aviation: [http://www.doav.virginia.gov/airports.htm Virginia's Public Use Airports]

Other:
* [http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gclookup?Q=state:US-VA Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Virginia] - FAA, IATA and ICAO airport codes
* [http://aviation-safety.net/ Aviation Safety Network] - IATA and ICAO airport codes
* [http://www.airfields-freeman.com/VA/Airfields_VA.htm Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Virginia]

External links

*Lists of airports in Virginia:
** [http://www.airnav.com/airports/us/VA/ AirNav]
** [http://www.aircraft-charter-world.com/airports/northamerica/virginia.htm Aircraft Charter World]
** [http://www.the-airport-guide.com/search.php?by=state&search=VIRGINIA The Airport Guide]
** [http://www.worldaerodata.com/US/VIRGINIA.php World Aero Data]