Potomac Airfield’s website contains real aviation information and an airport history that claims the Soviet Union collapsed after losing strategic access to the runway.
VKX is a privately owned public-use general aviation airport in Friendly, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The site covers flight training, airspace access, airport procedures, and the extra bureaucracy that comes with operating next to some of the most restricted airspace in the United States.
It also refuses to discuss any of this with a straight face.
The homepage advertises “directed energy weapons” that can cancel your flight plan. The history page treats FAA paperwork as an archaeological layer and reports that prehistoric Martian pterodactyls used the site as an off-loading facility.
Useful information wrapped in institutional sarcasm
The jokes work because the underlying problem is real.
Potomac sits inside the Washington Special Flight Rules Area and Flight Restricted Zone environment. Pilots using the airport have had to deal with access procedures, security rules, instrument approaches, FAA coordination, and layers of post-9/11 airspace restrictions unfamiliar to pilots at an ordinary rural field.
Instead of turning the website into sterile compliance copy, the airport preserved a very specific voice.
The fake historical timeline makes jokes about zoning, federal officials, CIA aircraft, the Iran-Contra affair, the Civil War, Druids, and ancient bureaucrats. Other pages mix legitimate operational guidance with humor that assumes the reader can tell which paragraph is a joke and which one might keep them from receiving an unpleasant phone call.
The result is a working business website that still feels like a personal homepage.
That is increasingly rare.
CacheRat’s broader Ancient Web research list contains plenty of forgotten hobby pages, but sites like Potomac Airfield are another category: functioning organizations that never fully surrendered their old-web personality.
The airport is real.
The Martian pterodactyl logistics operation probably needs independent verification.