US Airways Arena

About US Airways Arena

US Airways Arena was an NBA and NHL arena in Largo, Maryland. It opened in 1973 and closed in 2002. Its last recorded capacity was 18,130 in its hockey layout. Tenants included Washington Bullets (NBA, 1974–1997) and Washington Capitals (NHL, 1975–1997). On our ranked lists it ranks 59th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names and 99th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as USAir Arena (1993–1995) and Capital Centre (until 1992).

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• 59th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 99th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 16th for most name changes among 29 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 12th shortest-lived of 46 basketball arenas with known opening and closing years
• 38th longest single tenancy (23 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 19th for most name changes among 26 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 10th shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 42nd longest single tenancy (22 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 11th shortest-lived of 43 NBA arenas with known opening and closing years
• 32nd longest single tenancy (23 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas
• 17th for most name changes among 24 NHL arenas with 3 or more names
• 8th shortest-lived of 34 NHL arenas with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

The site today

• The site is now occupied by Carillon.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, general layout, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (Public domain): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity.