Norfolk International Airport


Norfolk International Airport is southeastern Virginia's dominant airport serving the Greater Hampton Roads area and northeastern North Carolina. Offering more than 200 arrivals and departures daily to major cities throughout the United States, Norfolk International presently ranks in the country's top 65 airports in terms of passengers served annually, with 3.78 million passengers in 2004. Adjacent to the celebrated Norfolk Botanical Garden, Norfolk International Airport is surrounded by year-round beauty and has become a national role model for reconciling expanding air facilities and a delicate ecological sanctuary.

NEWPORT NEWS/ WILLIAMSBURG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Newport News/ Williamsburg International Airport traces its roots back to World War II, when the current airport facility was part of the US Army's Camp Patrick Henry, a sprawling 1700 acre complex that was a major staging area for American troops shipping off to the war in Europe.

Nearly 1.5 million soldiers passed through Camp Patrick Henry, where after processing they were sent aboard a series of troop trains to the nearby Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation on the Newport News waterfront to board ships for the voyage across the Atlantic

 

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