Winner Aviation at Ohio’s Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport is the latest FBO to be approved under the TSA’s DCA Gateway program, for general aviation flights headed to Washington’s Reagan National Airport (DCA). Under the DCA Access Standard Security Program (DASSP) service providers must clear TSA inspection at a gateway facility and hire an armed air marshal before flying to DCA.
“We are pleased that we are approved as a DCA gateway airport and can provide our customers the convenience of flying from Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport directly into Reagan National Airport,” said Michael Hillman, the company’s director of flight operations. “Our customers’ drive time from DCA to the capital mall is now only a matter of minutes rather than an hour or more from surrounding airports.”