Originally Posted by
WillCAD
I was under the impression that most American airports are owned by local or state government agencies. BWI, for example, is owned by the Maryland Aviation Administration, an agency of the state government. I know there are lots of smaller fields that are privately owned, but I thought most, if not all, of them were the general aviation type that cater to small private planes, as opposed to the commercial airports where airlines operate.
I may be off-base on this, however. Can someone enlighten me a bit?
Yeabut. In some cases those government agencies are operated in a quasi-private manner. It gets murkier when you consider ownership vs management (in other words, owned publicly but managed by a private concern).
Most smaller general aviation airports are still owned by the local jurisdiction or state - some are privately owned.