Man do the spoooky places around DC have a history to them or what??????



Hoover Field was where the Pentagon is now. It was the first airport to serve DC.....(Reagan) National Airport replaced Hoover when the Pentagon was built.

The airport on the Arl/Alex border was called Crossroads Airport originally...later named Washington-Virginia Airport, but many continued to call it Crossroads. Skyline is the name of the development that was built on the old airport site. A plane coming in for a landing at Crossroads hit the screen at the Sunset Drive-in theatre across the street.

I remember Crossroads well....used to ride my bike there and hang out talking to the plane owners and employees. One highlight was when one of the aircraft manufacturers...Piper or Cessna was offering demo flights for five bucks to drum up customers for flying lessons (and eventual plane sales, I suppose).

Had a heck of a time getting my mother to sign permission for me to go up for a ride. But I finally wore her down.

There was another general aviation airport in Falls Church....where Loehmann's Plaza is now on Arlington Blvd. I much preferred Crossroads.

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Virginia: Northeastern Fairfax County

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