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Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport, the Glossary

Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport is in the census-designated place of Weyers Cave, Virginia, United States, west of the Town of Grottoes and northeast of the City of Staunton.^[1]

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1958 establishments in Virginia
Airports established in 1958

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.

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Air Midwest

Air Midwest, Inc., was a Federal Aviation Administration Part 121 certificated air carrier that operated under air carrier certificate number AMWA510A issued on May 15, 1965.

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Airline hub

An airline hub or hub airport is an airport used by one or more airlines to concentrate passenger traffic and flight operations.

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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.

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Augusta County, Virginia

Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Bob Goodlatte

Robert William Goodlatte (born September 22, 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist who served in the United States House of Representatives representing for 13 terms.

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Calendar year

Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day, and thus consists of a whole number of days.

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Census-designated place

A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.

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Charlotte Douglas International Airport

Charlotte Douglas International Airport is an international airport serving Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, located roughly west of the city's central business district.

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Chautauqua Airlines

Chautauqua Airlines, Inc. was a regional airline in the United States and a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Colgan Air

Colgan Air was a regional airline in the United States that operated from 1965 until 2012.

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Contour Airlines

Contour Airlines is an independent regional airline headquartered at Smyrna Airport in Smyrna, Tennessee, United States.

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Controlled flight into terrain

In aviation, a controlled flight into terrain (CFIT; usually) is an accident in which an airworthy aircraft, fully under pilot control, is unintentionally flown into the ground, a mountain, a body of water or an obstacle.

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Courtyard by Marriott

Courtyard by Marriott is an American brand of hotels owned by Marriott International.

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Daily News-Record

The Daily News-Record is a daily newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Douglas DC-3

The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II.

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Dulles International Airport

Washington Dulles International Airport is an international airport in Loudoun County and Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, United States, west of downtown Washington, D.C. The airport, which opened in 1962, is named after John Foster Dulles, an influential United States Secretary of State during the Cold War who briefly represented New York in the United States Senate. Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport and Dulles International Airport are airports in Virginia.

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Eastern Mennonite University

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) is a private Mennonite university in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Essential Air Service

Essential Air Service (EAS) is a U.S. government program enacted to guarantee that small communities in the United States, which had been served by certificated airlines prior to deregulation in 1978, maintain commercial service.

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FAA airport categories

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a system for categorizing public-use airports (along with heliports and other aviation bases) that is primarily based on the level of commercial passenger traffic through each facility.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.

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Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines is a major American ultra low-cost airline headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.

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Grottoes, Virginia

Grottoes is an incorporated town in Rockingham County in the state in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Harrisonburg, Virginia

Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Henson Airlines Flight 1517

On September 23, 1985, Henson Airlines Flight 1517 crashed in Grottoes, Virginia, while on approach to the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport.

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James Madison University

James Madison University (JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems

The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) is an inventory of U.S. aviation infrastructure assets.

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Orlando International Airport

Orlando International Airport is the primary international airport located southeast of Downtown Orlando, Florida.

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Orlando Sanford International Airport

Orlando Sanford International Airport is in Sanford, Florida, United States, near Orlando.

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Piedmont Airlines (1948–1989)

Piedmont Airlines was a local service carrier, a scheduled carrier in the United States that operated from 1948 until it merged with USAir in 1989.

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Pilot error

In aviation, pilot error generally refers to an action or decision made by a pilot that is a substantial contributing factor leading to an aviation accident. It also includes a pilot's failure to make a correct decision or take proper action.

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Pittsburgh International Airport

Pittsburgh International Airport — originally Greater Pittsburgh Airport and later Greater Pittsburgh International Airport — is a civil-military international airport in Findlay Township and Moon Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Rockingham County, Virginia

Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Silver Airways

Silver Airways is a regional airline in the United States with its headquarters in Hollywood, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.

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SkyWest Airlines

SkyWest Airlines is an American regional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah.

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Staunton, Virginia

Staunton is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.

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The National Map

The National Map is a collaborative effort of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and other federal, state, and local agencies to improve and deliver topographic information for the United States.

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Transportation Security Administration

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that has authority over the security of transportation systems within, and connecting to, the United States.

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United Express

United Express is the brand name for the regional branch of United Airlines, under which five individually owned regional airlines operate short- and medium-haul feeder flights.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Department of Transportation

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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US Airways

US Airways was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1937 until it merged with American Airlines in 2015.

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US Airways Express

US Airways Express was the brand name for the regional affiliate of US Airways, under which a number of individually owned commuter air carriers and regional airlines operate short and medium haul routes.

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