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Leesburg Executive Airport at Godfrey Field is a town-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Leesburg, a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.〔 It is a busy general aviation airport in the Washington, D.C. area, and a reliever for nearby Washington Dulles International Airport. == History == Leesburg Executive Airport was built in 1963 to replace an earlier grass field on the eastern edge of the town, which was owned & used by radio personality Arthur Godfrey for his private DC-3 aircraft. Godfrey sold the field and shared a portion of the funds with the Town of Leesburg, which used the proceeds to help fund a new airport 2 miles south of town. The town used matching funds from the FAA. Originally named Godfrey Field, it is now known as Leesburg Executive Airport at Godfrey Field.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leesburg Executive Airport at Godfrey Field )〕 In 1986, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) consolidated its 308 Flight Service Stations into 61 'automated' stations (to be known as "AFSS"). The Flight Service Station at Leesburg was scheduled to close, but local lobbying convinced the FAA to rent space from the town and locate an AFSS at the airport. In 1993, when the airport operator went bankrupt, the Town of Leesburg assumed direct operation of the airport, lengthening the runway twice to an eventual length of to support business jets and adding a localizer approach and automated weather observation equipment to support all-weather operations. The airport is currently a designated general aviation reliever airport for Dulles International, 10 miles (17 km) to the southeast, and in 2008 hosted 231 aircraft based on the field and an average of 265 aircraft operations per day. The FAA funded an ILS installation that was completed in April 2011.〔(Airport Instrument Landing System (ILS) Grading Project )〕 The field also has a GNSS GPS approach with vertical guidance available. In 2015 Leesburg will become the first airport in America to operate a remote control tower. The facility will be located and operated onsite during the trial period.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leesburg Airport To Test Remote Control Tower )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leesburg Executive Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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