Aviation & Transportation

Welcome to Loudoun, home to Leesburg Executive Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport – one of the most efficient, state-of-the-art and economical cargo gateways in the nation. Loudoun is a crossroads of commerce, travel and logistics with connections to air, road, rail and sea networks. Join the numerous airlines, airfreight forwarders and shippers already capitalizing on this growing market and take advantage of low costs, a central location and modern infrastructure.

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Aviation-centric Advantages for Loudoun County

Welcome to Loudoun, home to Washington Dulles International Airport – one of the most efficient, state-of-the-art and economical cargo gateways in the nation. Loudoun is a crossroads of commerce, travel and logistics with connections to air, road, rail and sea networks. Join the numerous airlines, airfreight forwarders and shippers already capitalizing on this growing market and take advantage of low costs, a central location and modern infrastructure.

Dulles International Airport
Leesburg Executive Airport
Virginia is one of six FAA test sites for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Rapid workforce growth and one of the lowest levels of unemployment in the nation
Available incentives and financing options
Affordable, reliable utilities

Location: Influence Policymakers, Win Customers

Action beyond your visual line of site can be devastating. At a time when lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are regulating the future of your industry, can you afford to be a plane ride away?

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General Aviation

Signature Flight Support and Ross Aviation serve as the Fixed Base Operators for the business aviation community.

Signature has a 67,000 square foot facility on the east side of Dulles Airport. Ross Aviation has an 84,000 square foot facility north of the Main Terminal on the west side of Dulles.

Loudoun actively seeks companies who operate in the general aviation space, including charter, fractional ownership, flight instruction, etc.

Location Advantages:

Multiple Fortune 500 companies close to Dulles
Embassies and foreign dignitaries
Local area professional sports teams

Air Cargo

There are currently seven cargo buildings on the airport property with a total of over 540,000 square feet of operational space. Over the next 20 years, world air cargo traffic will grow 5.2 percent per year. Air freight, including express traffic, will average 5.3 percent annual growth, measured in Revenue-Ton-Kilometers (RTKs).

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Dulles International Airport Advantages

Cargo Ramp
- 93,000 square meters / 1,001,050 square feet
Warehouse Space / 6 Cargo Buildings
- 47,000 square meters / 505,900 square feet
24-Hour Operations
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Foreign Trade Zone #137
The Washington Dulles catchment area is large and easily accessible
- Catchment area is larger than traditional gateway markets such as New York JFK
- Approximately 56% of the U.S. population resides in areas with overnight delivery from Dulles
- Larger than new gateways such as Atlanta and Charlotte
- Excellent access via Road Feeder Service to U.S. Northeast, Southeast and Midwest markets
International services have expanded belly cargo capacity significantly in recent years, to more non-stop destinations
Washington Dulles Airport has the lowest average taxi and second lowest weather delays on the East Coast
Excellent access to Northeast, Southeast and Midwest markets

Flight Simulation & Training

Aviation, more than most domains, requires significant, recurrent, and expensive training. Whether it is flight crew qualification/requalification, aircraft upgrades, aircraft maintenance, or a number of other sub-domains, aviation-centric training requires specialized equipment, people, and facilities.

These high-tech facilities, equipment and people are a great fit for Loudoun. Aviation-centric schools and universities are also a growing trend to fill aviation-related needs into the next century.

Loudoun is already rich in higher education offerings, but we actively seek academic or maintenance-related schools to provide workforce for the aviation sector by making local aviation-centric education accessible and affordable.

Location Advantages

Crossroads of multiple domestic and international carriers
Wide variety of aircraft types operating at Dulles
High-end business aviation market

Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO)

The commercial aircraft MRO market has evolved out of a trend by airlines to perform third party contract repairs following respite periods between in-house jobs. Given the importance of aircraft safety, MRO has evolved to become a key market within the aviation industry.

The current estimate is that the value of the world commercial aircraft MRO market in 2022 will reach $84.7 billion.

Loudoun currently seeks companies which manufacture, store, and ship aircraft spare parts, repair commercial aircraft, and perform ancillary services.

Loudoun Features:

Wide variety of aircraft types
High-end business aviation market

Transportation & Logistics

The movement of freight-raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods-currently supports over $350 billion of Virginia’s Gross State Product annually.
To accommodate the movement of freight, Virginia hosts one of the nation’s leading four major cargo airports, and some of the nation’s most heavily used truck corridors. Over the next two decades, the forecast is for significant growth in the demand for freight movement into, out of, within and through Virginia.
With Dulles International Airport and Air Cargo as the center of our focus, we are attracting businesses that understand Loudoun is
connected to everything with logistics at the right place, right time and right people.