VKX was a great place in the day. Cheap fuel if you were in the fuel club. Good mechanic on field. Owner was a bit of a crackpot but his heart was in the right place. Was great departing Runway 6 and looking right at the Capitol building. It was a quick ride around the beltway to where I lived by IAD. (Of course, I was crazy enough to base at IAD before the trippled the parking prices and generally got hostile to us small fry, when I got started there the FBO owner was of the impression that you should treat everybody nice because the guy in a Bonanza on Sunday might be in the back of the Gulfstream that came by on Tuesday).

HEF doesn't avoid the SFRA, it's smack inside it. CJR misses it by a few miles indeed (which worked well for me as I was mostly heading toward CLT anyhow). I was in EAA186 back in the day as well.