Potomac Airfield
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Copley Investments | ||||||||||
| Serves | Washington DC metro area | ||||||||||
| Location | Friendly CDP, Maryland | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 118 ft / 36 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°44′55″N 076°57′21″W / 38.74861°N 76.95583°W | ||||||||||
| Website | Potomac-Airfield.com | ||||||||||
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  VKX Location of airport in Maryland  VKX VKX (the United States) | |||||||||||
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Potomac Airfield (ICAO: KVKX, FAA LID: VKX), also known as Potomac Airport (), a privately owned, public-use airport located in the Friendly census-designated place in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, United States (just outside Washington, D.C.); it has a Fort Washington postal address.[3][4] It is a general aviation airport, and there is no scheduled airline service available.
Potomac Airfield is located within the Washington, D.C. Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ). In order to take off or land at the airport, pilots must apply for a regional security clearance through the airport's website, or the FAA.
Facilities and aircraft
[edit]Potomac Airfield covers an area of 50 acres (20 ha), and features one paved asphalt runway (6/24) measuring 2,665 x 40 ft (812 x 12 m). In the year ending September 14, 2023, there were 12,054 operations, average 33 per day. There were at that time 94 aircraft based at this airport: 91 single engine and 3 multi-engine.[1]
In popular culture
[edit]The airfield appears in a season 3 episode of Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman entitled "Mission Improbable".[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b FAA Airport Form 5010 for VKX PDF, effective April 18, 2024.
- ^ Potomac Airfield (official site)
- ^ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Friendly CDP, MD." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 2, 2018. Previously Friendly had a different shape: "CENSUS 2000 BLOCK MAP: FRIENDLY CDP." In the 1990 U.S. Census Bureau maps of Prince George's County, Maryland (index map) Friendly CDP is on pages 27, 28, and 33.
- ^ "3rd%20class%20medical%20-%20final%20-%20PUBLIC.pdf." Potomac Airfield. Retrieved on September 2, 2018. "10300 Glen Way * Fort Washington * MD "
External links
[edit]- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for VKX
- AirNav airport information for VKX
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for VKX