Manassas Regional Airport

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Manassas Regional Airport

Harry P. Davis Field
AMSL
192 ft / 59 m
Coordinates38°43′17″N 077°30′56″W / 38.72139°N 77.51556°W / 38.72139; -77.51556
Websitewww.manassasva.gov/airport...
Map
HEF is located in Virginia
HEF
HEF
HEF is located in the United States
HEF
HEF
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
16L/34R 6,200 1,737 Asphalt
16R/34L 3,715 1,132 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Aircraft operations87,900
Based aircraft374

Manassas Regional Airport (IATA: MNZ[1][2], ICAO: KHEF, FAA LID: HEF) (Harry P. Davis Field) is five miles southwest of the center of Manassas.[3] Manassas Regional Airport is the largest regional airport in Virginia, and it is located 30 miles (48 km) from Washington, D.C.

History

Small planes at Manassas Regional Airport

An airport for Manassas was proposed in 1930, when the mayor was Harry P. Davis.

Denver and reassembled it at Manassas Regional Airport. A new terminal was built in 1996.[7]

The airport saw commercial airline service by

Washington Dulles International Airport
. Colgan was based at the Manassas airport and flew
New York Air Connection providing feeder flights for the larger carrier. In early 1987 New York Air merged into Continental Airlines and Colgan operated as a Continental Express feeder carrier however service to Manassas ended a short time later. Colgan returned to Manassas for a period of time in the mid 1990s operating under their own brand and providing flights to Washington Dulles.[8]

In June 2023, the airport received a proposal from airport operator Avports to relaunch commercial operations, with "multiple interested parties."[9] The Manassas City Council approved the proposal unanimously on July 24, 2023, with commercial operations expected in two years.

Facilities

The airport covers 888 acres (359 ha) at an elevation of 192 feet (59 m). It has two asphalt runways: 16L/34R is 6,200 x 100 feet (1,737 x 30 m) and 16R/34L is 3,715 x 75 feet (1,132 x 29 m).[10]

In the year ending December 31, 2021 the airport had 87,900 aircraft operations, average 241 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. 374 aircraft were then based at this airport: 287 single-engine aircraft, 46 multi-engine aircraft, 24 jets, and 17 helicopters.[3]

Manassas houses 26 businesses operating onsite ranging from maintenance, flight schools, aircraft charter, and avionics. APP Jet Center and Chantilly Air are the airport's two fixed base operators(FBOs) with Chantilly Air opening in March, 2021. Dulles Aviation had previously run the 1st FBO at the airport from the 1980s until closing its doors in May 2019 and was responsible for a lot of the airport's growth.

One operator at the airport is Quest Diagnostics, who operate PC-12s and TBM 700s at the airfield. Quest Diagnostics specialize in transporting medical samples and tests across the US. They grew massively during the COVID-19 pandemic as the need for rapid transportation of COVID tests and specimens grew exponentially.[11][12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Great Circle Mapper (IATA: MNZ)
  2. ^ a b "Airline and Airport Code Search". IATA. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  3. ^
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  4. ProQuest 150345581
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  7. ^ Airport History at City of Manassas website
  8. ^ Official Airline Guide
  9. ^ "New Airport in the D.C. Area? Manassas Airport Eyes Commercial Service in Two Years". AeroXplorer. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  10. ^ FAA
  11. ^ To test during a pandemic, it takes an airline, vol. Video, YouTube: Washington Post, 2020-06-20, retrieved 2023-08-22
  12. ^ Staff, Ars (2020-04-29). "Appearing nightly, the Quest Diagnostics Air Force". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2023-08-22.

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