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  • Who is Dulles Airport named after?

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    Washington Dulles International Airport is named after John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. The airport was under construction when John Foster Dulles died in 1959, and US Senator Homer Capehart introduced a bill to posthumously name it in his honor. The airport, located some 26 miles (or 42 Read more...
  • Why is Dulles Airport called IAD?

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    Dulles Airport’s IAD identifier is derived from the initial letters of its name, Dulles International Airport. When Dulles originally opened in 1962 it was given the logical airport code DIA. It changed to IAD in 1967 to avoid confusion and accidental fight routing errors with nearby Washington National Airport (now Reagan National Airport) which uses the code DCA. IATA has Read more...

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