Washington Dulles International Airport and is on pace to exceed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport's annual passenger numbers for 2018 after having fewer passengers ever since 2015. However, Dulles Airport still ranks behind Baltimore–Washington International Airport (BWI) in total annual passenger boardings, despite being a larger facility with more gates. Prior to World War II, Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington, on the site now occupied by The Pentagon and its parking lots. It was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941, a short distance southeast. After the war, in 1948, the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a
Garden City Regional Airport Garden City Regional Airport Garden City Regional Airport is nine miles southeast of Garden City, in Finney County, Kansas. It is served by one scheduled airline, subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program at a cost of $2,919,026 (per year). The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a "primary commercial service" airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 11,453 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 10,014 in 2009, and 10,155 in 2010. During World War II the United States Army Air Forces used Garden City Airport as a training airfield