A bevy of corporate executives are rolling into town to attend Monday’s Inauguration Day festivities. And one local airport is bracing for impact. For the first time in the facility’s history, the FAA is allowing flights to operate in and out of Leesburg Airport on Inauguration Day, the Washington Business Journal reports.
In a Facebook post yesterday, the airport alerted travelers that the area will be especially busy. “Operations at Leesburg Airport (JYO) will be greatly impacted January 18th to 22nd by the Presidential Inauguration with hundreds of business aircraft flooding the region — transiting in/out of JYO during these dates may be difficult.”
Leesburg’s Kuhn Aviation manages the airport’s private and corporate charters, fuel sales, and aircraft maintenance. The company’s president, Scott Kuhn, said the airport expects more than 100 corporate jets to touch down between today and next Tuesday. He asserts that, “this will be the largest business aviation event in Leesburg’s history by far.”
“We’re parking them overnight for several nights, pretty much on every piece of pavement we can find at the airport,” Scott Coffman, the airport’s director, said of the corporate jets arriving over the next several days.
Located 35 miles outside Washington DC, Leesburg Executive Airport is owned and operated by the Town of Leesburg. It’s the second busiest general aviation airport in the state.
Dulles International, Manassas Regional, and BWI Marshall, are also open to air traffic on Inauguration Day. Due to Reagan National’s close proximity to DC, the airport will be operating on a restricted schedule on Monday.
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