Other Support Activities for Air Transportation in Virginia (NAICS 488190)

NAICS 488190 and Virginia as a residual join

NAICS 488190 and geography VA meet in this cell. $253,741,242.10 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not the industry’s national total, not Virginia’s entire federal inflow, and not an outlay. NAICS 488190 is other support activities for air transportation, a residual listing, not scheduled air carriers and not aircraft manufacturing. Remove either filter and the number changes. This page never claims the pair caused the other side to exist.

599 awards sit beside $253,741,242.10. That count can include contracts, orders, and modifications. Treating 599 as a roster of hangars, airports, or aircrews would misread award records as facilities or people. Unique recipients are unpublished on this packet. A three-figure award book at this dollar scale is thicker per line than a high-volume wholesale cell; it is still a record count, not a plant census.

Open Virginia federal spending for every industry coded to the state, NAICS 488190 for the code without a state filter, Virginia industries for the state industry index, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parent tables into $253,741,242.10.

Airport-side support, not airline operations

Scheduled air transportation and aircraft manufacturing sit on other industry pages. NAICS 488190 is a residual “other support” line that collects airport-side services neighboring six-digit codes do not. This packet does not name those services. Mixing airline or airframe dollars into $253,741,242.10 would invent a roll-up the packet does not publish. NAICS 488190 is the only industry key on this Virginia tie.

Dividing $253,741,242.10 by 599 awards yields about $423,608 per award. That mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice and not a median. The packet has no fiscal-year split and no de-obligation history. It does not name airports, primes, or hangar campuses. Keep the figure labeled as NAICS 488190 obligations with Virginia place of performance.

Virginia geography on a 488190 cell

Virginia place of performance can cover Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, or a Richmond reporting address. The packet has no airport or city split. Ordinary maps mention Dulles-area work, Norfolk, or a named hangar campus. This extract has no such split. All of those places, if they appear at all, share VA inside $253,741,242.10.

A Virginia performance tag can sit on work whose parts, crews, or aircraft moved through other states. The join reports the tag, not a bill of lading. Awards coded to Maryland or the District of Columbia stay outside this sum even if a vendor’s mailroom sits in Virginia. Virginia federal spending uses the same place-of-performance rule for every industry on the state hub.

Obligations, not outlays, on Virginia 488190

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $253,741,242.10 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as cash already cleared in Virginia over-reads the field. 599 remains an award-record count, not a payment count and not a flight count. Keep the obligation word when you quote NAICS 488190 in Virginia.

What the air-support–Virginia pair does not prove

A large residual air-transport support total tagged to Virginia does not mean the industry caused airport capacity, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation is not causation. FEC filings and USAspending awards are different datasets. Keep $253,741,242.10 labeled as NAICS 488190 obligations with Virginia place of performance. NAICS 488190 is the national industry hub; Virginia industries lists other codes in the state; All spending ties indexes other pairs.

How to cite NAICS 488190 in Virginia

A clean footnote names NAICS 488190 (Other Support Activities For Air Transportation), Virginia place of performance, $253,741,242.10 in obligations, and 599 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Mean dollars per action remain about $423,608. Quote Virginia federal spending if you need every industry in the state, and quote NAICS 488190 if you need the code without the VA filter. Do not per-capita the total; population is unpublished here. Keep both sides of the join in the same sentence.

Questions

How much has NAICS 488190 obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $253,741,242.10 in obligations for NAICS 488190 with Virginia place of performance, covering 599 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the industry–state pair, not an outlay figure and not the industry’s national total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Are 599 awards 599 Virginia airports?

The extract lists 599 award actions totaling $253,741,242.10. A three-figure row list can still hold a nine-figure total if fewer, larger actions dominate. Average obligation per award is about $423,608, a ratio, not a typical invoice. Unique recipients are not published on this packet.

Is this Virginia’s airline or aircraft-manufacturing total?

No. $253,741,242.10 is NAICS 488190 residual air-transport support obligations with Virginia place of performance on 599 awards. Scheduled carriers and aircraft manufacturing use other codes. Quote other support activities for air transportation and Virginia together and keep the obligation label.

Where are the parent Virginia and NAICS 488190 tables?

Virginia federal spending shows every industry coded to the state. NAICS 488190 shows the code without a state filter. Virginia industries is the state industry index. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later USAspending ingests. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.