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Orlando International Airport
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Orlando International Airport is a major public airport located six miles southeast of Orlando, Florida, United States. It is the second-busiest airport in the state of Florida, as over 40.2 million passengers were handled at the airport as of 2015 and this makes it the 14th-busiest airport in the U. S. by total passenger traffic. The airport serves as a hub for Silver Airways, as well as a city for Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways. Southwest Airlines is the airports largest carrier by passengers carried, the airport also is a major international gateway for the mid Florida region, with flights by foreign air carriers. Orlando Army Air Field #2 was renamed Pinecastle Army Airfield in January 1943, with the establishment of an independent U. S. In the 1950s, the base began hosting SACs annual Bombing, a B-47 Stratojet crashed during the 1958 competition, killing Colonel Michael Norman Wright McCoy, commander of the 321st Bombardment Wing, which was the host wing for Pinecastle AFB. The following year the base was renamed for McCoy, the base later was home to the 306th Bombardment Wing operating the B-52 Stratofortress and the KC-135 Stratotanker. It was also used by EC-121 Warning Star early warning aircraft of the 966th Airborne Early Warning and Control Squadron, one of these U-2s was shot down by Soviet-operated SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missiles near Banes, Cuba. Its pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr. USAF, was the only combat death. Following the crisis, McCoy AFB hosted a permanent U-2 operating detachment of the 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing until 1973, McCoy AFB was identified for closure in early 1973 as part of a post-Vietnam reduction in force. In the early 1960s, when jet airline flights came to Orlando, Early jetliners such as the Boeing 707, Boeing 720, Douglas DC-8 and Convair 880 required longer and sturdier runways than the ones at Herndon Airport. The military offered a large AGM-28 Hound Dog missile maintenance hangar, the city would then cover the cost of building a replacement missile maintenance hangar on the main bases western flight line. The new civil facility would be known as the Orlando Jetport at McCoy and this agreement became a model for other joint civil-military airports in operation today. Airline flights to the Orlando Jetport began shortly after an agreement was signed by the city, over the next few years airline flights shifted from the old Herndon Airport. In 1971 scheduled airlines were Delta Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, National Airlines, when McCoy AFB closed in 1974/1975, part of the facility stayed under military control to support Naval Training Center Orlando. GOAAs mission was to operate, manage and oversee construction of expansions, the airport gained its current name and international airport status a year later in 1976, but retained its old IATA airport code MCO and ICAO airport code KMCO. The airport became a U. S. Customs Service Foreign Trade Zone in 1978, in 1979, the facility was also designated as a large hub airport by the FAA based on flight operations and passenger traffic. In 1978, construction of the current Landside Terminal and Airsides 1 and 3 began, the original International Concourse was housed in Airside 1 and opened in 1984
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ICAO airport code
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The ICAO airport code or location indicator is a four-character alphanumeric code designating aerodromes around the world. ICAO codes are used to identify other aviation facilities such as weather stations, International Flight Service Stations or Area Control Centers. Flight information regions are identified by a unique ICAO-code. Code selections in North America were based on existing radio station identifiers, for example, radio stations in Canada were already starting with C, so it seemed logical to begin Canadian airport identifiers with Cxxx. The United States had many pre-existing airports with established mnemonic codes and their ICAO codes were formed simply by prepending a K to the existing codes, as half the radio station identifiers in the US began with K. Most ICAO codes outside the US and Canada have a geographical structure. Most of the rest of the world was classified in a more planned top-down manner, thus Uxxx referred to the Soviet Union with the second letter denoting the specific region within it, and so forth. Europe had too many locations for one starting letter, so it was split into Exxx for northern Europe. The second letter was more specific, EGxx was the United Kingdom, EDxx was West Germany, ETxx was East Germany, LExx was Spain, LAxx was Albania, France was designated LFxx, as the counterpart EFxx was the unambiguously northern Finland. ICAO codes are separate and different from IATA codes, which are used for airline timetables, reservations. For example, the IATA code for Londons Heathrow Airport is LHR, in general IATA codes are usually derived from the name of the airport or the city it serves, while ICAO codes are distributed by region and country. Far more aerodromes have ICAO codes than IATA codes, and to add to the confusion IATA codes are assigned to railway stations. Unlike the IATA codes, the ICAO codes generally have a structure and are comprehensive. In general, the first letter is allocated by continent and represents a country or group of countries within that continent, the second letter generally represents a country within that region, and the remaining two are used to identify each airport. The exception to rule is larger countries that have single-letter country codes. In either case, ICAO codes generally provide geographical context unlike IATA codes, for example, if one knows that the ICAO code for Heathrow is EGLL, then one can deduce that the airport EGGP is somewhere in the UK. On the other hand, knowing that the IATA code for Heathrow is LHR does not enable one to deduce the location of the airport LHV with any greater certainty, there are a few exceptions to the regional structure of the ICAO code made for political or administrative reasons. Similarly Saint Pierre and Miquelon is controlled by France, and airports there are assigned LFxx as though they were in Europe, further, in region L, all available 2-letter prefixes have been exhausted and thus no additional countries can be added
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Federal Aviation Administration
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The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation. The FAAs roles include, Regulating U. S, each LOB has a specific role within the FAA. Airports — plans and develops projects involving airports, overseeing their construction, Air Traffic Organization — primary duty is to safely and efficiently move air traffic within the National Airspace System. ATO employees manage air traffic facilities including Airport Traffic Control Towers, Aviation Safety — Responsible for aeronautical certification of personnel and aircraft, including pilots, airlines, and mechanics. Commercial Space Transportation — ensures protection of U. S. assets during the launch or reentry of commercial space vehicles, the FAA is headquartered in Washington, D. C. as well as the William J. The newly created Aeronautics Branch, operating under the Department of Commerce assumed primary responsibility for aviation oversight, in fulfilling its civil aviation responsibilities, the Department of Commerce initially concentrated on such functions as safety regulations and the certification of pilots and aircraft. It took over the building and operation of the system of lighted airways. The Aeronautics Branch was renamed the Bureau of Air Commerce in 1934 to reflect its status within the Department. As commercial flying increased, the Bureau encouraged a group of airlines to establish the first three centers for providing air traffic control along the airways, in 1936, the Bureau itself took over the centers and began to expand the ATC system. The pioneer air traffic controllers used maps, blackboards, and mental calculations to ensure the separation of aircraft traveling along designated routes between cities. In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Act transferred the civil aviation responsibilities from the Commerce Department to a new independent agency. The legislation also expanded the role by giving them the authority. President Franklin D. Roosevelt split the authority into two agencies in 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Civil Aeronautics Board, CAA was responsible for ATC, airman and aircraft certification, safety enforcement, and airway development. CAB was entrusted with safety regulation, accident investigation, and economic regulation of the airlines, the CAA was part of the Department of Commerce. The CAB was an independent federal agency, on the eve of Americas entry into World War II, CAA began to extend its ATC responsibilities to takeoff and landing operations at airports. This expanded role eventually became permanent after the war, the application of radar to ATC helped controllers in their drive to keep abreast of the postwar boom in commercial air transportation. The approaching era of jet travel, and a series of midair collisions and this legislation gave the CAAs functions to a new independent body, the Federal Aviation Agency. The act transferred air safety regulation from the CAB to the new FAA, the FAAs first administrator, Elwood R. Quesada, was a former Air Force general and adviser to President Eisenhower
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Orlando, Florida
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Orlando is a city in the U. S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County. Located in Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 4,000,002, according to U. S. As of 2015, Orlando had an estimated population of 270,934, making it the 73rd-largest city in the United States, the fourth-largest city in Florida. The City of Orlando is nicknamed The City Beautiful, and its symbol is the fountain at Lake Eola, Orlando is also known as The Theme Park Capital of the World and in 2014 its tourist attractions and events drew more than 62 million visitors. The Orlando International Airport is the thirteenth-busiest airport in the United States, with the exception of Walt Disney World, most major attractions are located along International Drive. The city is one of the busiest American cities for conferences and conventions. Orlando is home to the University of Central Florida, which is the largest university campus in the United States in terms of enrollment as of 2015, in 2010, Orlando was listed as a Gamma− level of world-city in the World Cities Study Groups inventory. Orlando ranks as the fourth-most popular American city based on where people want to live according to a 2009 Pew Research Center study. Fort Gatlin, as the Orlando area was known, was established at what is now just south of the city limits by the 4th U. S. Artillery under the command of Ltc, alexander C. W. Fanning on November 9,1838 during the construction of a series of fortified encampments across Florida during the Second Seminole War. The fort and surrounding area were named for Dr. John S. Gatlin, king Phillip and Coacoochee frequented this area and the tree was alleged to be the place where the previous 1835 ambush that had killed over 100 soldiers had been planned. When the U. S. military abandoned the fort in 1839 the surrounding community was built up by settlers, prior to being known by its current name, Orlando was once known as Jernigan. Aarron Jernigan became Orange Countys first State Representative in 1845 but his pleas for military protection went unanswered. Fort Gatlin was briefly reoccupied by the military for a few weeks during October and November 1849, a historical marker indicates that by 1850 the Jernigan homestead served as the nucleus of a village named Jernigan. One of the countys first records, a grand jurys report, mentions a stockade where it states homesteaders were driven from their homes, Aaron Jernigan led a local volunteer militia during 1852. Jernigan appears on an 1855 map of Florida and by 1856 the area had become the county seat of Orange County and it is known for certain that the area was renamed Orlando in 1857. The move is believed to be sparked, in part, by Aaron Jernigans fall from grace after he was relieved of his command by military officials in 1856. His behavior was so notorious that Secretary of War Jefferson Davis wrote, in 1859, Jernigan and his sons were accused of committing a murder at the towns post office
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Sanford, Florida
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Sanford is a city in the central region of the U. S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Seminole County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 53,570, known as the Historic Waterfront Gateway City, Sanford sits on the southern shore of Lake Monroe at the head of navigation on the St. Johns River. Native Americans first settled in the thousands of years before the city was formed. The Seminoles would arrive in the area in the 18th century, during the Second Seminole War in 1836, the United States Army established Camp Monroe and built a road that is currently known as Mellonville Avenue. The city sits approximately 20 miles northeast of Orlando, Sanford is home to Seminole State College of Florida and the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Its downtown attracts tourists with shops, restaurants, a marina, the Orlando Sanford International Airport, which is in the heart of the town, functions as the secondary commercial airport for international and domestic carriers in the Orlando metropolitan area. The ten-foot wide paved walkway spans a distance of miles in Sanfords downtown area along the waterfront of Lake Monroe. Phase 2, which adds over 3000 feet to the trail, was completed in 2014, the city is redoing the face of Sanford Avenue, one of the main streets, with a new brick road, wider sidewalks, trees, flowers, and benches. Sanford is connected to the central Florida commuter railway SunRail, with the station 2 miles from the downtown, to support the its green initiatives, Sanford has added five electric car charging stations. The city is proposing to replace streetlamp bulbs with LED lights, the city of Sanford also launched a redesigned city government website in 2012. The Mayaca or Jororo Indians inhabited the shores of Lake Monroe at the time of European contact, by 1760, however, war and disease had decimated the tribe, which would be replaced by the Seminole Indians. Florida was acquired by the United States from Spain in 1821, in 1835, the Seminoles burned the port of Palatka on the St. Johns River, then the major artery into Central Florida from the East Coast. Consequently, a garrison was established upstream, on the southern side of Lake Monroe near a trading post. Called Camp Monroe, the log breastwork was attacked on February 8,1837 and it would be strengthened and renamed Fort Mellon in honor of Captain Charles Mellon, the sole American casualty. General Zachary Taylor had a road connecting a string of defenses from Lake Monroe to Fort Brooke. The town of Mellonville was founded around Fort Mellon in 1842 by Daniel Stewart, in 1845, Florida became a U. S. state, and Mellonville became county seat of Orange County, formerly called Mosquito County with its county seat across the lake at Enterprise. Orange groves were planted, with the first fruit packing plant built in 1869, in 1870, General Henry Shelton Sanford bought 12,548 acres to the west of Mellonville and laid out the community of Sanford. Believing it would become a hub, he called it The Gateway City to South Florida
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Focus city
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In the airline industry, a focus city is a destination from which an airline operates several point-to-point routes. Thus, a city primarily caters to the local market rather than to connecting passengers. However, with the terms expanded usage, a city may also function as a small-scale hub. Allegiant Air, JetBlue and Frontier Airlines are examples of airlines that consider some of their destinations to be focus cities
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Allegiant Air
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Allegiant Air is an American low-cost airline owned by Allegiant Travel Co. that operates scheduled and charter flights. Allegiant Travel Company is a traded company with 2,848 employees. The corporate headquarters are in Summerlin, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, wholly owned by Allegiant Travel, the airline has over 2,800 employees. Allegiant Air was founded in January 1997 by Mitch Allee, Jim Patterson and Dave Beadle, the airline also has authority for charter service to Canada and Mexico. However, Allegiant was unable to bring in revenue to cover its costs and on December 13,2000. The bankruptcy allowed Maurice J. Gallagher, Jr. one of the major creditors. A veteran leader of low-cost airlines, Gallagher had worked with WestAir and as CEO of ValuJet Airlines, in June 2001, Gallagher restructured Allegiant to a low-cost model, focusing on smaller markets that larger airlines did not serve with mainline aircraft. Now chief executive officer and chairman, he moved the headquarters, in March 2002, Allegiant exited bankruptcy and entered into a long-term contract with Harrahs to provide charter services to its casinos in Laughlin and Reno, Nevada. At the same time, the airline acquired its first McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jetliner, from 2002 through 2004, the airline developed its scheduled-service business model. By 2004, Allegiant was flying from 13 small cities to Las Vegas offering bundled air, in November 2006, Allegiant filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in anticipation of a planned initial public offering of its Common Stock. It is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the ticker symbol ALGT, the airport announced a 10, 000-square-foot expansion in August 2008, which increased the number of gates from two to four and allowed Allegiant to triple the number of flights from Phoenix. The expansion was funded by a loan from Allegiant which will be repaid by passenger fees, on November 14,2007, Allegiant opened its fifth focus city and operations base at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, connecting other Allegiant cities to South Florida. In January 2008, Allegiant opened its base at Washingtons Bellingham International Airport. The airline bases two McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft in Bellingham as part of the expansion, routes served exclusively from Bellingham include Las Vegas, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Francisco and Phoenix. Expansion in Bellingham has been driven by its proximity to Vancouver. On July 1,2010 Allegiant returned to Long Beach Airport in Long Beach, California having previously served LGB with DC-9 jets with nonstop flights to Las Vegas, in February 2010, Allegiant opened its ninth base at Grand Rapids Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Michigan. The airline based two McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft in Grand Rapids, but ended their airports status as a hub in 2011, the airline continues to fly out of Grand Rapids in a reduced capacity. In March 2010, Allegiant purchased six used Boeing 757-200 jetliners as part of plans to begin flights to Hawaii, with deliveries from early 2010 to the fourth quarter of 2011
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Runway
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According to the International Civil Aviation Organization, a runway is a defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft. Runways may be a surface or a natural surface. Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally the magnetic azimuth of the heading in decadegrees. This heading differs from true north by the magnetic declination. A runway numbered 09 points east, runway 18 is south, runway 27 points west, when taking off from or landing on runway 09, a plane would be heading 90°. A runway can normally be used in both directions, and is named for each separately, e. g. runway 33 in one direction is runway 15 when used in the other. The two numbers usually differ by 18, Runway Zero Three Left becomes Runway Two One Right when used in the opposite direction. In some countries, if parallel runways are too close to each other, at large airports with four or more parallel runways some runway identifiers are shifted by 10 degrees to avoid the ambiguity that would result with more than three parallel runways. For example, in Los Angeles, this results in runways 6L, 6R, 7L. At Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, there are five parallel runways, named 17L, 17C, 17R, 18L, for clarity in radio communications, each digit in the runway name is pronounced individually, runway three six, runway one four, etc. A leading zero, for example in runway zero six or runway zero one left, is included for all ICAO, however, most U. S. civil aviation airports drop the leading zero as required by FAA regulation. This also includes some military airfields such as Cairns Army Airfield and this American anomaly may lead to inconsistencies in conversations between American pilots and controllers in other countries. It is very common in a such as Canada for a controller to clear an incoming American aircraft to, for example, runway 04. In flight simulation programs those of American origin might apply U. S. usage to airports around the world, for example, runway 05 at Halifax will appear on the program as the single digit 5 rather than 05. Runway designations change over time because the magnetic poles slowly drift on the Earths surface, depending on the airport location and how much drift takes place, it may be necessary over time to change the runway designation. As runways are designated with headings rounded to the nearest 10 degrees, for example, if the magnetic heading of a runway is 233 degrees, it would be designated Runway 23. If the magnetic heading changed downwards by 5 degrees to 228, if on the other hand the original magnetic heading was 226, and the heading decreased by only 2 degrees to 224, the runway should become Runway 22. Because the drift itself is slow, runway designation changes are uncommon
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Naval Air Station Sanford
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Naval Air Station Sanford was a United States Navy naval air station in Sanford, Florida, approximately 20 miles north of Orlando, Florida. Opening less than a year after the start of World War II, NAS Sanfords initial function was as a training base for land-based patrol bombers. Naval Air Station Sanford was commissioned as a naval installation on November 3,1942 and was initially assigned the airport codes NRJ and KNRJ. The base initially concentrated on advanced land-based patrol plane training, operating PV-1 Venturas, PBO Hudsons, in 1943, training at NAS Sanford shifted to carrier-based fighter aircraft using the F4F, FM-1 and FM-2 Wildcat and F6F Hellcat. The air station also held oversight of an airfield known as Outlying Field Osceola approximately 6 nautical miles east-southeast of NAS Sanford. Decommissioned in 1946 and placed in a status, the base was recommissioned as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Sanford in 1950 in response to both the Korean War and the Cold War. In the late 1950s, substantial upgrades followed in order to turn the air station into a Master Jet Base for the carrier-based Douglas A-3 Skywarrior nuclear attack aircraft of Heavy Attack Wing ONE. In addition to the Skywarrior, other associated sea-based and land-based training aircraft supporting A3D training, such as the F9F-T Cougar, NAAS / NAS Sanford also retained control of OLF Osceola into the early 1960s. However, OLF Osceolas 4000 to 5, 000-foot runways lacked sufficient length, as a result, no improvements were made to the OLFs infrastructure and it was effectively abandoned as an operational facility. HATWING ONE consisted of nine Heavy Attack Squadrons, also known as HATRONs, VAH-1, VAH-3, VAH-5, VAH-6, VAH-7, VAH-9, VAH-11, VAH-12, all were Fleet deployable units with the exception of VAH-3, which conducted Replacement Air Group / Fleet Replacement Squadron functions. In addition to the HATWING ONE squadrons, Air Development Squadron FIVE, based at NAWS China Lake, California, also maintained a detachment at NAS Sanford. By staying with the aircraft, LCDR Ramey not only gave his flight time to bail out of the aircraft. In the early 1960s, the A3D aircraft began to be replaced by the Mach 2+ North American A3J Vigilante, as a result, all Vigilante squadrons were converted to a carrier-based tactical reconnaissance mission and redesignated as Reconnaissance Attack Squadrons. Existing A-5A and A-5B aircraft were modified to the RA-5C Vigilante configuration, Heavy Attack Wing ONE was renamed Reconnaissance Attack Wing ONE and its subordinate squadrons as Reconnaissance Attack Squadrons. NAS Sanford also operated the R4D-8/C-117 Skytrain as a support aircraft assigned to the air station proper. Kennedy, culminating with the establishment of RVAH-14 on 1 February 1968, the Navy officially vacated NAS Sanford in 1969 and the installation was turned over to the City of Sanford. RA-5C units remained operational at NAS Key West until the RA-5Cs retirement from naval service in January 1980. An A-3 Skywarrior has also requested from the Navy for future restoration and display
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Walt Disney World
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The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida. The resort is the destination of Disneys worldwide corporate enterprise. Opened on October 1,1971, Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world, the resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It was initially operated by Walt Disney World Company, Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open in the complex, in 1971, followed by Epcot in 1982, Disneys Hollywood Studios in 1989, and the most recent, Disneys Animal Kingdom in 1998. Designed to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the Florida Project, as it was known, was intended to present a distinct vision with its own diverse set of rides. Walt Disneys original plans called for the inclusion of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney died on December 15,1966, before construction began, without Disney spearheading the construction, the company created a resort similar to Disneyland, abandoning experimental concepts for a planned community. In 1959, Walt Disney Productions began looking for land to house a second resort to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955. Market surveys at the revealed that only 5% of Disneylands visitors came from east of the Mississippi River. Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the businesses that had sprung up around Disneyland, Walt Disney flew over a potential site in Orlando, Florida – one of many – in November 1963. To avoid a burst of land speculation, Walt Disney World Company used various dummy corporations to acquire 30,500 acres of land, in May 1965, some of these major land transactions were recorded a few miles southwest of Orlando in Osceola County. In addition, two tracts totaling $1. Some are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in Magic Kingdom, the smaller parcels of land acquired were called outs. They were 5-acre lots platted in 1912 by the Munger Land Company, most of the owners in the 1960s were happy to get rid of the land, which was mostly swamp at the time. Another issue was the rights to the land, which were owned by Tufts University. Without the transfer of rights, Tufts could come in at any time. Eventually, Disneys team negotiated a deal with Tufts to buy the rights for $15,000. Working strictly in secrecy, real estate agents unaware of their clients identity began making offers to landowners in April 1964 in parts of southwest Orange and northwest Osceola counties
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Universal Orlando
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The Universal Orlando Resort, commonly known as Universal Orlando, formerly Universal Studios Escape, is a theme park resort in Orlando, Florida. It is wholly owned by NBCUniversal and its affiliates, Universal Orlando is the second-largest resort in Greater Orlando after Walt Disney World. Universal Orlando consists of two parks, a water park, a night-time entertainment complex, and five Loews Hotels. Universal Orlando opened in 1990, as the theme park Universal Studios Florida and it was opened as a joint venture between Universal Entertainment and The Blackstone Group. The park was in competition with Disney-MGM Studios. In 1994, executives started planning the expansion of the resort into a vacation destination. In late 1995, construction began on a new park, Islands of Adventure, the Islands of Adventure Preview Center opened in May 1997 replacing the Screen Test Home Video Adventure. On May 28,1999, Islands of Adventure opened to the general public and it featured six themed islands, including Seuss Landing, The Lost Continent, Jurassic Park, Toon Lagoon, and Marvel Super Hero Island. The park opened to mediocre attendance, and several attractions were closed shortly thereafter, including Island Skipper Tours, along with the new theme park, the resort also opened a Florida version of Universal CityWalk from Universal Studios Hollywood. CityWalk Orlando, but with different venues and design, Universal also opened the resorts first onsite hotel in 1999. Loews Portofino Bay Hotel was operated and partially owned by Loews Hotels but was partially owned by Universal. The two theme parks, CityWalk, and the hotel were branded as Universal Studios Escape, however the name was changed to Universal Orlando Resort. In December 2000, Hard Rock Hotel opened as Universal Orlandos second onsite hotel, despite its name, the hotel is owned by Loews Hotels, like Loews Portofino Bay Hotel and is not affiliated with the Hard Rock Cafe company. In 2001, Loews Royal Pacific Resort opened, in the midst of all these openings, two parking garages were constructed and the popular water park Wet n Wild Orlando was acquired. On June 18,2010, the newest island at Universals Islands of Adventure, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the Blackstone Group sold its stake in Universal Orlando in early 2011. Universal Studios Florida is composed of themed areas and attractions based on the film industry, visitors get themed dining and shopping, a variety of special events throughout the year, and may even catch an actual film crew at work on the backlot. The original theme park in the resort, Universal Studios Florida opened on June 7,1990, as a theme park that let visitors Ride the Movies. The themes of Universal Studios Orlando are targeted at making guests feel like they are on a set with rides, shows, and attractions inspired by popular film, television
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SeaWorld Orlando
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SeaWorld Orlando is a theme park and marine zoological park, located In Orlando, Florida. It is owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, when combined with its neighbor Discovery Cove and Aquatica, it forms SeaWorld Parks and Resorts Orlando, an entertainment complex consisting of the three parks and many neighboring hotels. In 2015, SeaWorld Orlando hosted an estimated 4.7 million guests, ranking it the tenth most visited amusement park in the United States, as of summer 2014, SeaWorld Orlando has been separated into different areas, called seas. Each with a unique themed element and it is the guests gateway to the many seas of SeaWorld. Sea of Shallows, This area showcases most of the shallow water sea animal exhibits at the park as well as the Dolphin Theater, in addition, the Manta rollercoaster travels through this section and Turtle Trek, a dome theater show also reside here. All of the Key West at SeaWorld area is inside of the Sea of Shallows and it is designed to mimic the appearance of the city of Key West, Florida with architecture and landscaping reminiscent of the area. The stingray and dolphin habitats offer opportunities for guests to feed the animals, Sea of Legends, The Sea of Legends is dedicated to the mysterious myths and other tales told about the sea. Journey to Atlantis, a ride with roller-coaster elements, bases its story from the legend of the lost city of Atlantis. Next to the shop there is an aquarium with animals in an environment made to look like Atlantis. Also found here is Kraken, a floorless roller-coaster where the plays the part of the Kraken racing through the ocean. Sea of Ice, Sea of Ice, originally named Antarctica, is themed around the Antarctic continent, Antarctica, Empire of the Penguin is the sole attraction in this area. It is a ride where the guests follow a young penguin on a journey home after a harsh storm. The ride exits into the exhibit area. Sea of Delight, Sea of Delight includes a sub-area named The Waterfront, the majority of the parks restaurants are here as well as many shops. The parks Sky Tower ride is also here, it was integrated into the theme of The Waterfront village when the area opened in 2003, the only land animal show at the park, Pets Ahoy, is located here inside of the Seaport Theater. Outside of the Waterfront is where the Sea Lion and Otter Stadium viewing area stands, Sea of Mystery, The Sea of Mystery is a smaller area compared to the others in the park, with the exception of Antarctica. It also includes the Sea Garden, an area with themed structures that are made from trash found on beaches. Mako, a Bolliger & Mabillard steel hypercoaster opened in the area on June 10th 2016, the current shark exhibit, Sea of Fun, Formerly Shamus Happy Harbor, Sea of Fun, is a childrens area hosted by Shamu, the parks orca mascot
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Las Vegas
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The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment and it is the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World and it is a top three destination in the United States for business conventions and a global leader in the hospitality industry, claiming more AAA Five Diamond hotels than any city in the world. Today, Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the worlds most visited tourist destinations. The citys tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, Las Vegas was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, it was the most populated American city founded within that century, population growth has accelerated since the 1960s, and between 1990 and 2000 the population nearly doubled, increasing by 85. 2%. Rapid growth has continued into the 21st century, and according to a 2013 estimate, perhaps the earliest visitors to the Las Vegas area were nomadic Paleo-Indians, who traveled there 10,000 years ago, leaving behind petroglyphs. Anasazi and Paiute tribes followed at least 2,000 years ago, a young Mexican scout named Rafael Rivera is credited as the first non-Native American to encounter the valley, in 1829. Trader Antonio Armijo led a 60-man party along the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles, the area was named Las Vegas, which is Spanish for the meadows, as it featured abundant wild grasses, as well as desert spring waters for westward travelers. The year 1844 marked the arrival of John C, frémont, whose writings helped lure pioneers to the area. Downtown Las Vegas Fremont Street is named after him, eleven years later members of the LDS Church chose Las Vegas as the site to build a fort halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, where they would travel to gather supplies. The fort was abandoned several years afterward, the remainder of this Old Mormon Fort can still be seen at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue. Las Vegas was founded as a city in 1905, when 110 acres of adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks were auctioned in what would become the downtown area. In 1911, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city,1931 was a pivotal year for Las Vegas. At that time, Nevada legalized casino gambling and reduced residency requirements for divorce to six weeks and this year also witnessed the beginning of construction on nearby Hoover Dam. The influx of workers and their families helped Las Vegas avoid economic calamity during the Great Depression. The construction work was completed in 1935, in 1941, the Las Vegas Army Air Corps Gunnery School was established. Currently known as Nellis Air Force Base, it is home to the team called the Thunderbirds
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Direct Air
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Southern Sky Air Tours, d/b/a Direct Air was an airline business based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA Direct Air started in 2007 and leased aircraft with charter airlines. Its main base was Myrtle Beach International Airport, Direct Airs flights were operated by Sky King, Inc. Xtra Airways, World Atlantic Airlines, and USA Jet, in March 2012 Direct Air ceased operations, stranding many of its passengers. The airline planned to resume operations on May 15,2012, the charter carrier was subject to Chapter 7 liquidation on April 12,2012. On November 14,2006, Direct Air announced nonstop service from Myrtle Beach to Newark, Niagara Falls, on March 7,2007, Direct Air started flying. The flights were being operated by Sky King, Inc. on Boeing 737-200 aircraft until May 14,2007 when Direct Air ended its relationship with Sky King, Direct Airs flights were then operated primarily by Xtra Airways and Sky King, Inc. Occasionally, especially during peak periods, additional other operating carriers. These have included Virgin America, USA Jet, Dynamic Airways, Vision Airlines, on March 12,2012, Direct Air cancelled all of their charter flights throughout the United States. Passengers were initially not given reasons for the abrupt cancellations, on March 13,2012, a statement issued by Marketing Manager, Ed Warnek, indicated that flights would resume on Wednesday, March 14. Flight cancellations were attributed to a missed fuel payment, further news releases on March 13 indicate that flights will not resume until May 15 at the earliest. On March 16,2012, Direct Air issued a release stating that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The public address on its home page was modified to remove any indication that they would resume operation on May 15,2012. Chapter 7 liquidation commenced on April 12,2012, federal rules require that charter operators notify each passenger in writing within seven days after the cancellation but not less than 10 days before the scheduled flight. The DOT is also looking into Direct Airs handling of an escrow account that officials say is underfunded. The maximum civil penalty is $27,500 per violation per day, the companies president blames Direct Air for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and in that filing says that Direct Air owes Sky King $1 million all this according to a report in the Lakeland Ledger. Sky King President Frank Visconti the Lakeland Ledger that Direct Air owes then a significant amount of money when they the fuel company cut Sky King off, Sky King was one of eight carries that flew Direct Airs routes for them. The USDOT has said that is continuing to investigate Direct Air as well as it carriers, the bankruptcy court is currently sorting through Direct Airs financial records. Xtra Airways was fined $300,000 by the U. S, Xtra also violated rules that required them to be paid before operating public charted flights. S
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Naval air station
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A naval air station is a military air base, and consists of a permanent land-based operations locations for the military aviation division of the relevant branch of a navy. These bases are typically populated by squadrons, groups or wings, their various support commands, the term Naval Air Station is used by many countries navies, such as the United States Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, the British Royal Navy, and the Indian Navy. In the case of the U. S. Navy, similar facilities in the U. S. Marine Corps are known as Marine Corps Air Stations, runways also serve domestic airlines at almost all Argentine military airbases. The Navy operates Estacion Aeronaval which have smaller crews and are not normally assigned aircraft and these include Ezeiza, Rio Gallegos and Ushuaia. The Argentine Naval Prefecture, serving as a Coast Guard, also operates air stations at Posadas, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Aircraft operating out of these bases are heavily involved in sea rescues. In Australia, there is one Naval Air Station, NAS Nowra, HMAS Albatross, in 2016, the French Navy has four naval air stations, all located in metropolitan territory. The United Kingdom has two Royal Naval Air Stations, RNAS Yeovilton and RNAS Culdrose, until 2006, the former served as the main operating base for the Royal Navys Sea Harriers, which were based upon the three Invincible class aircraft carriers. However, upon the withdrawal of the BAe Sea Harrier in that year and it is believed that all of their successors will be based at RAF Lossiemouth. The site also contains the Royal Naval Air Museum, that showcases a variety of aircraft from the Royal Naval Air Service until the present day, RNAS Yeovilton also has RNAS Merryfield as its training and satellite station. RNAS Culdrose serves a variety of helicopter and fixed-wing squadrons, such as the Sea King, among the features at RNAS Culdrose is the Dummy deck which is used to train pilots to land on ships, the Merlin training facility, and the Fleet Requirements Air Direction Unit. Its satellite airfield is RNAS Predannack, in the United States, a Naval Air Station is an air base of the United States Navy. When located in countries, they are often identified as US Naval Air Stations. A slightly lower level of air base in the U. S. Navy is the Naval Air Facility and these facilities normally support smaller numbers of naval aircraft. Permanently based naval aircraft are usually minimal, with the focus being on supporting naval aircraft deployed from other installations. There are also a number of former Naval Air Stations that have been realiged as part of larger Naval Stations or redesignated to other functions in the Navy. This includes the former NAS Norfolk, Virginia, the former NAF Mayport, Florida, the former NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the former NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey. In the case of NAS Memphis, Tennessee, the airfield and flight line was turned over to civilian authorities. The first naval air station in the United States was located at Greenbury Point, at the mouth of the Severn River near Annapolis, Maryland
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United States Navy
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The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U. S. Navy is the largest, most capable navy in the world, the U. S. Navy has the worlds largest aircraft carrier fleet, with ten in service, two in the reserve fleet, and three new carriers under construction. The service has 323,792 personnel on duty and 108,515 in the Navy Reserve. It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 operational aircraft as of October 2016, the U. S. Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. It played a role in the American Civil War by blockading the Confederacy. It played the role in the World War II defeat of Imperial Japan. The 21st century U. S. Navy maintains a global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean. The Navy is administratively managed by the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Navy is itself a division of the Department of Defense, which is headed by the Secretary of Defense. The Chief of Naval Operations is an admiral and the senior naval officer of the Department of the Navy. The CNO may not be the highest ranking officer in the armed forces if the Chairman or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, the United States Navy is a seaborne branch of the military of the United States. The Navys three primary areas of responsibility, The preparation of naval forces necessary for the prosecution of war. The development of aircraft, weapons, tactics, technique, organization, U. S. Navy training manuals state that the mission of the U. S. Armed Forces is to prepare and conduct prompt and sustained combat operations in support of the national interest, as part of that establishment, the U. S. Navys functions comprise sea control, power projection and nuclear deterrence, in addition to sealift duties. It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, the Navy was rooted in the colonial seafaring tradition, which produced a large community of sailors, captains, and shipbuilders. In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, Massachusetts had its own Massachusetts Naval Militia, the establishment of a national navy was an issue of debate among the members of the Second Continental Congress. Supporters argued that a navy would protect shipping, defend the coast, detractors countered that challenging the British Royal Navy, then the worlds preeminent naval power, was a foolish undertaking. Commander in Chief George Washington resolved the debate when he commissioned the ocean-going schooner USS Hannah to interdict British merchant ships, and reported the captures to the Congress
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Passenger 57
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Passenger 57 is a 1992 American action film directed by Kevin Hooks. The film stars Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne and its success made Snipes a popular action hero icon. It also introduced Snipes famous line, Always bet on black, the FBI make plans to return Rane to Los Angeles aboard a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar passenger aircraft, for him to stand trial. After one class, Cutter is approached by an old friend, Sly Delvecchio, Cutter is reluctant, but Delvecchio and the companys president, Stuart Ramsey, convince him to accept the offer. Cutter boards as the 57th passenger on an Atlantic International flight to Los Angeles, Rane and his two FBI escorts are also aboard. After the flight takes off, several men in Ranes employ, posing as flight attendants and passengers, kill the FBI agents, release Rane, and secure the plane by also shooting the captain. Cutter, in the lavatory at the time, manages to use the planes on-board phone to warn Delvecchio of the situation, Cutter overpowers the agent and takes his weapon, he then uses the agent as a shield to confront Rane. Rane is indifferent and shows his ruthlessness by taking a passenger hostage, Rane also shoots his own agent in a further show of force. Cutter realizes he is outmatched and escapes with Marti to the cargo hold, dispatching another of Ranes men, Vincent. Cutter dumps the planes fuel, forcing Rane to order the pilots to land at a small Louisiana airfield. Cutter jumps from the plane as it lands, but Marti is caught by Rane, the local sheriff, Chief Leonard Biggs, arrests Cutter, thinking he is a terrorist, and takes him to the airport building. Rane contacts the fields tower and demands refueling, for which he promises half the passengers will be freed, for every five minutes of resistance or indecision, Rane will order one passenger executed. Rane also asserts that Cutter is one of his own men turned against him, Cutter recognizes the passenger release as a diversion, escapes from the sheriff, and chases Rane and his men into a local county fair. FBI agents arrive and confirm Cutters true identity to Biggs, Cutter is able to kill one of Ranes men and gets into a fight with Rane before police arrive and capture him. Back at the tower, Rane announces that if he not contact the plane and give flight clearance. The FBI agents arrange to return Rane to the plane, escorted by two agents, with plans to have a take down Rane and allow them to storm the plane to save the hostages. However, the sniper is Vincent, who kills the escorts, but is dead by Cutter. Rane orders the pilots to take off, while Cutter, with Biggss help, inside, Cutter deals with more of Ranes accomplices before getting into a fight with Rane
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Wesley Snipes
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Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor, film producer and martial artist. His prominent film roles include New Jack City, White Men Cant Jump and he formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate, Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, the son of Maryann, a teachers assistant, and Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up in the Bronx, New York and he attended the High School of Performing Arts of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts but moved back to Florida before he could graduate. After graduating from Jones High School in Orlando, Snipes returned to New York and he also attended Southwest College in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 23, Snipes was discovered by an agent while performing in a competition and he made his film debut in the 1986 Goldie Hawn vehicle Wildcats. Later that year, he appeared on the TV show Miami Vice as a pimp in the episode Streetwise. In 1987, he appeared as Michael Jacksons nemesis in the Martin Scorsese–directed music video Bad and that same year, Snipes was also considered for the role of Geordi La Forge in the TV series Star Trek, The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to LeVar Burton. Snipes performance in the music video Bad caught the eye of director Spike Lee, Snipes turned down a small role in Lees Do the Right Thing for the larger part of Willie Mays Hayes in Major League, beginning a succession of box-office hits for Snipes. Lee would later cast Snipes as the jazz saxophonist Shadow Henderson in Mo Better Blues and he then played Thomas Flanagan in King of New York opposite Christopher Walken. He played the drug lord Nino Brown in New Jack City and he also played a drug dealer in the 1994 film Sugar Hill. Julie Newmar where he played a drag queen, Snipes has appeared in dramas like The Waterdance and Disappearing Acts. In 1997, he won the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the 54th Venice Film Festival for his performance in New Line Cinemas One Night Stand, in 1998, Snipes had his largest commercial success with Blade, which has grossed over $150 million worldwide. The film turned into a series and he also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, SUNY/Purchase. In 2005, Snipes sued New Line Cinema, and David S. Goyer, director of Blade, Trinity, the suit was later settled, but no details were released. He has discussed reprising the role of Blade as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and he later appeared in The Contractor, filmed in Bulgaria and the UK, Gallowwalkers, released in 2012, and Game Of Death. Snipes was originally slated to play one of the four leads in Spike Lees 2008 war film Miracle at St. Anna but had to leave the film due to tax problems, his role eventually went to Derek Luke. Snipes made a performance in Brooklyns Finest as Casanova Caz Phillips
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AirTran Airways
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AirTran Airways was an American low-cost airline headquartered originally in Orlando, Florida, then in Dallas, Texas, after its acquisition by Southwest Airlines, into which it was integrated. AirTrans fleet consisted of Boeing 717-200 aircraft, of which it was the worlds largest operator and it was fully integrated into Southwest Airlines on December 28,2014. In 1994, AirTran Holdings purchased a start up 737 operator named Conquest Sun, Conquest Sun, similar to ValuJet, was an airline started by former Eastern Air Lines employees. The original AirTran Airways moved its headquarters to Orlando, Florida, in 1995, AirTran Airways was spun off by Mesaba and formed its own independent holding company named Airways Corporation. On July 10,1997, ValuJet, Inc. the holding company for ValuJet Airlines, Inc. announced plans to acquire Airways Corporation, Inc. the holding company for AirTran Airways, Inc. of Orlando, Florida. The deal was closed on November 17,1997. and renaming the holding company AirTran Holdings, in the summer of 1998, the two airlines merged onto the same FAA certificate under the AirTran name. While the hub remained in Atlanta, the headquarters of the new entity was combined in Orlando, Florida, while ValuJet was the nominal survivor and the merged company retained ValuJets stock price history, it decided to take a new name to distance itself from its troubled past. In January 1999, a new management team led by Joe Leonard, the two recruited a new senior management team including Stephen J. Kolski, Operations, Kevin P. Healy, Planning, and Loral Blinde, Human Resources. AirTran was the customer and ultimately the largest operator of this brand new aircraft. At the same time, Leonard was determined to not only lead the turn around of the carrier, AirTran reported a $30 million operating profit for 1999. On August 15,2001, the stock began trading under the ticker symbol AAI on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2002, AirTran created a brand, AirTran JetConnect. In 2003, following an order for 100 Boeing 737 aircraft, AirTran began service to Washington, D. C. s Reagan National Airport and to San Francisco. On January 5,2004, AirTrans last McDonnell Douglas DC-9 was retired, shortly after, the first Boeing 737 entered AirTrans fleet in June 2004. In August 2004, AirTran JetConnect ceased all operations, on May 23,2006, AirTran accepted one of the last two Boeing 717s delivered in a ceremony with Midwest Airlines, who accepted the other 717. Boeing closed the 717 line due to an overlap with the 737, in November 2007, Robert L. Fornaro took over as CEO, as well as President. Joe Leonard remained Chairman of the Board of Directors until June 2008, upon his retirement, Fornaro then became Chairman making him Chairman, President and CEO. In 2009, AirTran was the first major airline to have 100% of its fleet outfitted with Gogo Inflight Internet, by 2009 AirTran underwent major expansion in smaller cities such as Yeager Airport, Asheville Regional Airport, N. C. and Harrisburg International Airport, Pa
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Thomas Cook Airlines
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Thomas Cook Airlines Limited, is a British airline based in Manchester, England. It serves leisure destinations worldwide from its bases at Manchester. It also operates services from eight other bases around the United Kingdom and it was formed by the rebranding of JMC Air in 2003. Following the merger of the MyTravel Group with Thomas Cook in 2008, the airline holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, permitting it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats. 1919 In the aftermath of the First World War, Thomas Cook & Son is the first travel agent to advertise public trips by airplane, the firm becomes a passenger agent for the principal air companies and is soon selling tickets for return flights from London to Paris or Brussels. 1927 Thomas Cook & Son organise the world’s first personally-conducted tour by aeroplane, a group of six people fly from New York to Chicago for the Tunney-Dempsey world heavyweight boxing contest. The price of the package – comprising return flights with inflight meal, first-class accommodation in Chicago,1939 Holidays by air on specially-chartered aircraft to the French Riviera are included in Thomas Cook’s summer brochure for the first time. 1996 Thomas Cook acquires its first airline, Airworld, when it purchases UK tour operator Sunworld,1998 The Flying Colours Leisure Group is acquired by Airworld parent Sunworld in June 1998. The two airlines merge at the end of the 1998 summer season under the Flying Colours name,1999 JMC Airlines is launched on 1 September 1999 through the merger of Flying Colours and Caledonian Airways. 2013 Thomas Cook has set out plans to merge its German, British and Belgian airline businesses, the original Thomas Cook Airlines was established on 1 September 1999 and started operations on 27 March 2000. Flying Colours was also integrated by Airworld Aviation Ltd into the airline, JMC Airlines was renamed as Thomas Cook Airlines UK on 31 March 2003. The airline commenced operations in time for the summer 2008 season, with a fleet of Airbus A320, A321, in 2013, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and Condor merged into a single operating segment of the Thomas Cook Group. Thomas Cook Airlines carried around 6.4 million passengers during 2015, Thomas Cook Airlines operates flights to destinations in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, North America and Asia. The airline also operates charter flights from the United Kingdom for a number of tour operators, however. The airline also provides direct customer bookings on a seat only basis, as of February 2017, the Thomas Cook Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft, Drinks and snacks can be purchased on board from the Café Cloud menu. In-flight meals, champagne and a selection of gifts can be pre-ordered at the time of booking a flight or on the My Booking page of the airlines website, since May 2012, the in-flight meals available on Thomas Cook flights are designed exclusively by celebrity chef James Martin. Passengers who have not pre-ordered a meal can buy a selection of meals from the cabin crew, in-flight entertainment is available on most services. The new delivery of A321 aircraft will feature drop down entertainment systems with a potential for onboard wi-fi capabilities
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Airtours
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Airtours International Airways was a charter airline based in the United Kingdom with its head office in Parkway Three in the Parkway Business Centre in Manchester. Launched in March 1991 with just five MD83 series aircraft, Airtours International Airways was to be the airline of Airtours Holidays. In 1993, Airtours acquired Aspro Holidays including Aspros Inter European Airways subsidiary and this acted to further strengthen the process of vertical integration that was becoming popular among UK holiday companies. In 1996, Airtours took full control of Scandinavian airline PremiAir, in 2004, as part of the final phase of its financial restructuring, Airtours International Airways was re-branded as MyTravel Airways UK. PremiAir, the Scandinavian operator, was re-branded as MyTravel Airways A/S, in June 2007 it was announced that MyTravel Airways UK was to merge with Thomas Cook Airlines, and that MyTravel Airways Scandinavian subsidiary was to become Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia. The merger between the two UK airlines was completed in March 2008 and the rebranding of MyTravel Airways A/S was completed in May 2008, many of these aircraft were rebranded and transferred to Thomas Cook Airlines although the MD83s were retired in 1996. The rebranding of Airtours International Airways was part of a rebranding of the whole MyTravel Group. Airtours Holidays still trades as part of the Thomas Cook Group PLC
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JMC Air
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JMC Air Services, was a UK charter airline formed by the merger of Caledonian Airways and Flying Colours Airlines, following the purchase of Thomas Cook Group by the Carlson Leisure Group. JMC Air was named after the initials of the son of Thomas Cook, the airline was rebranded in March 2003 to form the current Thomas Cook Airlines. The airline served seat-only customers directly and package holiday customers via Thomas Cook Holidays and it started operating under the name from March 2000. The main operating bases were London Gatwick Airport and Manchester Airport, aircraft were also stationed at London Stansted Airport, Birmingham International Airport, Bristol Airport, Glasgow International Airport, Cardiff Airport and Newcastle Airport. At the start of operations the fleet consisted of Boeing 757-200, Airbus A320, subsequently, the airline became the first UK operator of the stretched Boeing 757-300. Thomas Cook was sold to C&N Touristic of Germany in 2000, on 31 March 2003 Thomas Cook rebranded the airline along with its other airlines as Thomas Cook Airlines. JMC operated the aircraft before rebranding. JMC were the first UK operator to use the Boeing 757-300
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MyTravel Group
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MyTravel Group PLC had an estimated market capitalization of over £1.43 Billion GBP. During the 1990s, Airtours purchased Scandinavian Leisure Group including award winning tour operators such as Ving and airline, in 2002, Airtours Group plc, rebranded under the new company-wide banner of MyTravel Group plc. This included a change for Airtours International and Premiair to MyTravel Airways. In November 2003, MyTravel sold off its North America Cruise Division to NLG of Woburn, the company ran into financial difficulties in 2004 and needed to implement a debt-for-equity swap in order to complete implementation of a group restructure. In 2004 and 2005, MyTravel took 5.7 million people on holiday of which 3.4 million were from the UK,1.5 million from Northern Europe and 0.8 million from North America. On 12 February 2007, MyTravel Group plc announced that they had agreed terms on a merger with Thomas Cook AG, the merger was given shareholder approval at an Extraordinary General Meeting on 29 May 2007. The parent company of the group is named Thomas Cook Group plc with its headquarters in the UK. FlightOnTime. info Most Punctual UK Charter Airline - Summer 2006 FlightOnTime. co. 8m MyTravel Group plc Press Release MyTravel Group plc Press Release
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Icelandair
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Icelandair is the main airline of Iceland, headquartered at Reykjavík Airport in Reykjavík. The geographical position of Iceland allows one-stop transatlantic flights, which are one pillar of the business strategy, along with traffic to. Icelandair traces its roots back to 1937, when Flugfélag Akureyrar was founded in Akureyri on the north coast of Iceland, Flight operations started in 1938 with a single floatplane of the type Waco YKS-7. In 1939 the airline was grounded when this aircraft was destroyed in a capsizing accident, the company moved to Reykjavík, where it acquired another Waco aircraft and was re-launched in 1940 as Flugfélag Íslands, which translates as Flight Company of Iceland. Previously, two unrelated airlines of the name had existed in the country. For international purposes, the name Iceland Airways was adopted, regular flights to Prestwick Airport in Scotland and Copenhagen in Denmark, using Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft leased from Scottish Airlines were launched in 1946. In the same year, comfort and performance of flights in Iceland could be improved with the introduction of the Douglas DC-3. A total of six airliners of that type had been purchased, which remained in service with the airline until 1972, until the late 1960s, Flugfélag concentrated mostly on domestic flights, where it initially faced fierce competition from Loftleiðir, another airline which had been founded in 1944. When a merger proposal of the Icelandic government was rejected by the two airlines, the routes were split among them as a measure to ease competition. When Loftleiðir pulled out of the market in 1952 to fully concentrate on international flights. International services stayed part of the model of Flugfélag, though to a far lesser extent compared to Loftleiðir. In 1948, the Douglas C-54 Skymaster was introduced on those routes, in the 1950s, Flugfélag began to use the Icelandair branding for its international flights. In 1967, Flugfélag was the first Icelandic airline to join the jet age, another 727 was acquired in 1971, and the aircraft type was operated until 1990. In 2008, the section of the Gullfaxi was put on display at the Akureyri Aviation Museum. Another company called Loftleiðir had been formed in 1944 by three young pilots returning from their training in Canada. Their company, whose name roughly means Skyways, concentrated on Icelandic domestic air services for the first few years, the first aircraft used were two Stinson Reliants, and then a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft. At first, Loftleiðir, like Flugfélag Íslands, concentrated on air services. Loftleiðir began scheduled operations in 1947
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Monarch Airlines
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The airlines headquarters are at Luton, with other bases at Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, Gatwick and Manchester. Monarch is one of the oldest UK airlines to have not changed its original name, Monarch Airlines carried 5.7 million passengers during 2015, a 19% decrease compared with 2014. In June 2010, the airline was ranked 58th in the Sunday Times Top Track 100 listing the biggest privately held British companies in terms of their sales. The company holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, permitting it to passengers, cargo. Monarch Airlines was formed on 5 June 1967 with financial backing from the Swiss Mantegazza family, at the time of Monarchs inception, the Mantegazza family were the owners of UK-based tour operator Cosmos Tours. Monarch began commercial operations on 5 April 1968 with a charter flight from Luton to Madrid using a former Caledonian Airways Bristol 175 Britannia 300 turboprop. The airlines initial fleet comprised two Bristol Britannias, the airline acquired additional Britannias from the administrators of British Eagle in 1969, its second year of operation. This was the first time the company carried 250,000 passengers within a 12-month period utilising a fleet of six Britannias, Monarch entered the jet age in 1971 when three Boeing 720Bs joined its fleet. The airlines first commercial jet service took to the air on 13 December 1971, the introduction of the companys first jet aircraft type also coincided with the adoption of a revised livery. In 1972, the airline carried 500,000 passengers in one year for the first time, by 1976, Monarch had transitioned to an all-jet fleet following the sale of the airlines last Britannia to Greek cargo charter airline Afrek on 21 May of that year. Two years earlier the airline had retired its last passenger-configured Britannia, at the end of 1980, Monarch Airlines took delivery of its first new jet aircraft, a pair of Boeing 737-200 Advanced, which had been acquired on an operating lease from Bavaria Leasing. One of the newly delivered 737s was stationed at Tegel Airport in then West Berlin at the beginning of the 1981 summer season, Monarch had taken over Flug-Union Berlins charter programme from Laker Airways. The addition of the 737s expanded Monarchs fleet to 11 jet aircraft, comprising one Boeing 707-320C, five Boeing 720Bs, in 1981, new stations were opened at Gatwick, Glasgow, Manchester and Berlin Tegel. This was the first time Monarch Airlines carried a million passengers in a single year,1981 was also the year Monarch became the first charter airline to order the Boeing 757-200, a high-capacity, medium-haul single-aisle plane powered by Rolls-Royce RB211-535C engines. Monarchs 757 order represented a step change for a small airline. Its first 757 was delivered and entered service in the spring of 1983 and this coincided with the introduction of an updated livery, the third in the airlines history. In spring 1985, the CAA awarded Monarch Airlines licences to begin scheduled services to Málaga, Minorca and this enabled the airline to launch its first-ever scheduled service from Luton to Minorca on 5 July 1986, under the brand name Monarch crown service. In 1986 Monarchs acquired their first Boeing 737-300 aircraft, from November 1988, four of Monarchs 737-300s were leased out to Euroberlin France, a Berlin Tegel-based Franco-German joint venture airline that was 51% owned by Air France and 49% by Lufthansa
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Airbus A330
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The Airbus A330 is a medium- to long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliner made by Airbus, a division of Airbus Group. Versions of the A330 have a range of 5,000 to 13,430 kilometres, the A330s origin dates to the mid-1970s as one of several conceived derivatives of Airbuss first airliner, the A300. The A330 was developed in parallel with the four-engine A340, which shared many common airframe components, both airliners incorporated fly-by-wire flight control technology, first introduced on an Airbus aircraft with the A320, as well as the A320s six-display glass cockpit. In June 1987, after receiving orders from customers, Airbus launched the A330. The A330 was Airbuss first airliner that offered a choice of three engines, General Electric CF6, Pratt & Whitney PW4000, and Rolls-Royce Trent 700. The A330-300, the first variant, took its flight in November 1992. Airbus followed up with the slightly shorter A330-200 variant in 1998, subsequently-developed A330 variants include a dedicated freighter, the A330-200F, a military tanker, the A330 MRTT, and a corporate jet, ACJ330. Since its launch, the A330 has allowed Airbus to expand market share in wide-body airliners, competing twinjets include the Boeing 767 and 777, along with the 787, which entered service in late 2011. The long-range Airbus A350 XWB was planned to succeed both the A330 and A340, the current A330 is to be replaced by the A330neo, which includes new engines and other improvements. As of February 2017, A330 orders stand at 1,682, the largest operator is Turkish Airlines with 60 A330s in its fleet. Airbuss first airliner, the A300, was envisioned as part of a family of commercial aircraft. In pursuit of this goal, studies began in the early 1970s into derivatives of the A300, before introducing the A300, Airbus identified nine possible variations designated B1 through B9. A tenth variant, the A300B10, was conceived in 1973, Airbus then focused its efforts on single-aisle studies, conceiving a family of airliners later known as the Airbus A320 family, the first commercial aircraft with digital fly-by-wire controls. During these studies Airbus turned its focus back to the aircraft market. In the mid-1970s Airbus began development of the A300B9, a derivative of the A300. The B9 was essentially a lengthened A300 with the same wing and it was targeted at the growing demand for high-capacity, medium-range, transcontinental trunk routes. It was also considered as a successor to the A300. At the same time, a 200-seat four-engine version, the B11 was also under development, to differentiate from the SA series, the B9 and B11 were re-designated as the TA9 and TA11, with TA standing for twin aisle
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Gatwick Airport
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Gatwick Airport is a major international airport in south-east England,29.5 miles south of Central London and 2.7 nautical miles north of Crawley. It is the second-busiest airport by passenger traffic in the United Kingdom. Gatwick is the eighth-busiest airport in Europe, Gatwick opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s, and has been in use for commercial flights since 1933. The airport has two terminals, the North Terminal and the South Terminal, which areas of 98,000 m2 and 160,000 m2 respectively. It operates as a airport, using a main runway with a length of 3,316 m. A secondary runway is available but, due to its proximity to the main runway, in 2016,43.1 million passengers passed through the airport, a 7. 1% increase compared with 2015. The land on which Gatwick Airport stands was first developed as an aerodrome in the late 1920s, the Air Ministry approved commercial flights from the site in 1933, and the first terminal, The Beehive, was built in 1935. Scheduled air services from the new terminal began the following year, major development work at the airport took place during the 1950s. The airport buildings were designed by Yorke Rosenberg Mardall between 1955 and 1988, further rapid growth of charter flights at Gatwick was encouraged by the Ministry of Aviation, which instructed airlines to move regular charter flights from Heathrow. Following the takeover of BUA by Caledonian Airways at the beginning of the following decade, while continuing to dominate scheduled operations at Gatwick for most of the 1980s, BCal was also one of the airports major charter airlines until the end of the 1970s. Following the demise of Air Europe and Dan-Air in the early 1990s and these moves resulted in BA becoming Gatwicks dominant airline by the turn of the millennium. BAs subsequent decision to de-hub Gatwick provided the space for EasyJet to establish its biggest base at the airport, BAA Limited and its predecessors, BAA plc and the British Airports Authority, owned and operated Gatwick from 1 April 1966 to 2 December 2009. From 1978 to 2008, many flights to and from the United States used Gatwick because of restrictions on the use of Heathrow implemented in the Bermuda II agreement between the UK and the US. US Airways, Gatwicks last remaining US carrier, ended service from Gatwick on 30 March 2013 and this leaves Gatwick without a scheduled US airline for the first time in nearly 40 years. On 17 September 2008, BAA announced it would sell Gatwick after the Competition Commission published a report about BAAs market dominance in London, the sale was completed on 3 December. The sales were part of GIPs strategy to syndicate the equity portion of the acquisition by issuing bonds to refinance bank debt. Although this entails bringing additional investors into the airport, GIP aims to retain management control, the Californian state pension fund CalPERS acquired a 12. 7% stake in Gatwick Airport for about $155 million in June 2010. This transaction completed GIPs syndication process for the airport, reducing its stake to 42%, the airport is owned and operated by Gatwick Airport Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ivy Holdco Limited
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Manchester Airport
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Manchester Airport is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England,7.5 nautical miles south west of Manchester city centre. In 2016, it was the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passenger numbers, the airport comprises three terminals, a goods terminal and is the only British airport other than Londons Heathrow Airport to operate two runways over 3,280 yd in length. Manchester Airport covers an area of 560 hectares and has flights to 199 destinations, officially opened on 25 June 1938, it was initially known as Ringway Airport. In the Second World War, as RAF Ringway, it was a base for the Royal Air Force, Ringway, after which the airport was named, is a village with a few buildings and church at the southern edge of the airport. The airport handled 25.6 million passengers in 2016, a record total and this potential figure is limited by the airports restriction to 61 aircraft movements per hour. Manchester Airport started construction on 28 November 1935 and opened partly in June 1937 and completely on 25 June 1938, after the Second World War, the base reverted to a civilian airport and gradually expanded to its present size. Historically, Manchester Airport was consistently the busiest airport after London Heathrow for a number of following the war. In 1972, the M56 motorway opened to the airport, by 1993, the airport railway station opened. From 1997 to 2001 its second runway was built, causing protests in the area. In October 2008 the daily New York–JFK service was terminated and in March 2013. This leaves a daily high frequency BA Shuttle serving London Heathrow, in codeshare with British Airways Oneworld Alliance partner American Airlines operations remain in Terminal 3 with daily flights to both New York–JFK and Chicago–OHare. American Airlines has since merged with US Airways, which offers service to Philadelphia and operated a seasonal route to Charlotte. Since taking over BA Connects select routes, Flybe has gone on to add more destinations. In 2013 Virgin Atlantic introduced its Little Red short-haul brand to take-up some of the available Heathrow, Manchester was the inaugural destination, with services were operated by aircraft wet-leased from Aer Lingus. However, these ceased in March 2015 due to low popularity. As part of the Governments The Future of Air Transport White Paper, Manchester Airport published its Master Plan on its proposed expansions until 2030. A full-length parallel taxiway may be added to the second runway, the World Logistics Hub is also part of the Airport City Enterprise Developments in South Manchester. This development is designed to meet the demand for cargo handling space
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Glasgow Airport
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Glasgow Airport, also unofficially Glasgow International Airport, formerly Abbotsinch Airport, is an international airport in Scotland, located 6 nautical miles west of Glasgow city centre. It is the airport serving the west of Scotland and is the principal transatlantic. The airport is owned and operated by AGS Airports which also owns and operates Aberdeen and it was previously owned and operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings. The airports largest tenants are British Airways and Loganair, the using it as a hub. Other major airlines using GLA as a base include Flybe, EasyJet, Jet2, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Glasgow Airport was first opened in 1966 and originally flights only operated to other places in the United Kingdom and Europe. The RAF Station HQ, however, was not formed until 1 July 1936 when 6 Auxiliary Group, Bomber Command, from May 1939, until moving away in October 1939, the Squadron flew the Supermarine Spitfire. In 1940, a training unit was formed, which trained both RAF and Royal Navy crews. On 11 August 1943 Abbotsinch was handed over solely to the Royal Navy, all Her Majestys Ships and naval bases are given ship names and Abbotsinchs was known as HMS Sanderling since June 1940. During the 1950s, the airfield housed an aircraft storage unit. The Royal Navy left in October 1963, the name Sanderling was however retained as a link between the two, HMS Sanderlings ships bell was presented to the new airport and a bar in the airport was named The Sanderling Bar. In the 1960s, Glasgow Corporation decided that a new airport for the city was required, the original site of Glasgows main airport was 3 km east of Abbotsinch, in what is now the Dean Park area of Renfrew. The original Art Deco terminal building of Renfrew Airport has not survived, the site is now occupied by a Tesco supermarket and the M8 motorway, this straight and level section of motorway occupies the site of the runway. Abbotsinch took over from Renfrew airport on 2 May 1966, the UK Government had already committed millions into rebuilding Prestwick Airport fit for the jet age. The first commercial flight to arrive was a British European Airways flight from Edinburgh, the airport was officially opened on 27 June 1966 by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1975, the BAA took ownership of Glasgow Airport, when BAA was privatised in the late 1980s, as BAA plc, it consolidated its airport portfolio and sold Prestwick Airport. The restrictions on Glasgow Airport were lifted and the transatlantic operators immediately moved from Prestwick, BAA embarked on a massive redevelopment plan for Glasgow International Airport in 1989. Spences original concrete facade which once looked onto Caledonia Road now fronts the check-in desks, the original building can be seen more clearly from the rear, with the mock barrel vaulted roof visible when airside. By 1996, Glasgow was handling over 5.5 million passengers per annum, the airport serves a variety of destinations throughout Europe, North America and the Middle East
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TUI Airways
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The airline carried 10.6 million passengers in 2015, making it the third-largest UK airline by total passengers, after EasyJet and British Airways. The registered office is at the TUI Travel House in Crawley, West Sussex but its office is located in Wigmore House in Luton. Thomson Airways Limited holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence permitting it to passengers, cargo. The airline was formed following the merger of the division of TUI AG. TUI Travel merged with TUI AG to form TUI Group in December 2014, all airlines in the group except Corsair International will be branded as TUI fly. Thomson Airways has its origins in several predecessor airlines, euravia, an airline which was founded in January 1962 was renamed Britannia Airways in December 1964. Orion Airways, founded in 1979 by Horizon Holidays and later owned by the brewing firm Bass Brewery and InterContinental Hotels Group, was sold. Britannia Airways was rebranded as Thomsonfly in May 2005, finally, Air 2000 was founded in 1987, and which integrated the operations of Leisure International Airways in 1998, became First Choice Airways in 2004. Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways merged following the merger of the division of TUI AG. All flights operated under the Thomsonfly CAA Air Operators Certificate from 1 May 2008, the Thomson Airways brand was launched for the combined airline on 1 November 2008, which became the worlds largest charter airline. The new brand retained the Thomsonfly colour scheme, and aircraft in the fleet were gradually repainted, several First Choice Airways aircraft remained in the First Choice livery as they were due to be phased out of service. A new livery, named Dynamic Wave, was introduced in May 2012, Thomson Airways became the first UK airline to take delivery of the Boeing 787, receiving the first aircraft in May 2013. Passenger services with the aircraft began on 21 June 2013 with a flight between London Gatwick and Menorca, also in 2013, the parent group TUI Travel ordered 60 Boeing 737 MAX for delivery to group airlines. Thomson Airways carried 10.6 million passengers during 2015, a 2. 4% increase compared with 2014, Thomson will be the last airline to be completed around 2017. Whilst a full rebrand has not yet taken place, it has begun, starting with the application of the TUI titles to its 737-800, 757-200, 787-8 and their sister company, Thomson Holidays, has ceased using the Thomson and First Choice brands overseas. Instead, overseas teams operate the brand TUI for trips booked with Thomson, First Choice, Skytours and this applies to all transfer, excursion and representative operations. In December 2016, Thomson Holidays launched their final television advertisement using the Thomson brand, the airlines head office is in the Wigmore House near Luton, Bedfordshire. The facility is adjacent to Luton Airport, Thomson Airways largest base is at London-Gatwick, closely followed by Manchester with its third largest at Birmingham
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Bristol Airport
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Bristol Airport, located at Lulsgate Bottom in North Somerset, is the commercial airport serving the city of Bristol, England, and the surrounding area. It is 7 nautical miles southwest of Bristol city centre, built on the site of a former RAF airfield, it opened in 1957 as Bristol Airport, replacing Bristol Airport as Bristols municipal airport. From 1997 to 2010 it was known as Bristol International Airport, in 1997 a majority shareholding in the airport was sold to FirstGroup, and then in 2001 the airport was sold to a joint venture of Macquarie Group and others. In September 2014, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan bought out Macquarie to become the sole owner, in 2016, it was the ninth busiest airport in the United Kingdom, handling over 7.6 million passengers, a 12% increase compared with 2015. According to a 2012 passenger survey,25. 7% of journeys using the airport started or ended in the city of Bristol,18. 9% in Wales,18. 5% in Somerset and 12. 4% in Devon. Airlines with operating bases at the airport include EasyJet, Ryanair, Thomas Cook, Thomson Airways, the airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers and for flying instruction. In 1927 a group of businessmen raised £6,000 through public subscription to start the Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club. In 1929, Bristol Corporation took up the proposal to develop farmland located at Whitchurch, to the south of Bristol. On its opening by Prince George, Duke of Kent in 1930, passenger numbers grew to 4,000 by 1939. During World War II, Whitchurch was the civil airport remaining operational. The newly formed British Overseas Airways Corporation was transferred to Whitchurch from Croydon Airport, BOAC operated routes around the British Empire and to neutral nations, including the Bristol–Lisbon route which was operated by the Dutch airline KLM, under charter to BOAC. In September 1940, No 10 Elementary Flying Training School at RAF Weston-super-Mare established a Relief Landing Ground on 14 acres at Broadfield Down by the hamlet of Lulsgate Bottom, near Redhill. Being high, at 600 ft, the site had a weather record during warm front conditions. Few facilities were constructed although pillboxes, defensive guns and later two Blister hangars were added. In late 1940, a Starfish site was set up south of the village of Downside and its decoy fires attracted a large quantity of Luftwaffe high explosives and incendiaries on the nights of 16 March,3 April and 4 April 1941 during the Bristol Blitz. However, its use soon changed into being a satellite airfield for the fighter squadrons based at RAF Colerne. Originally, the new name was to be RAF Broadfield Down. The runways used the standard triangular pattern, the main, east-west runway was 3,891 ft long, with a designated alignment of 28/10, and the others were 3,300 ft aligned 21/03 and 3,294 ft aligned 34/16
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Delta Air Lines
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Delta Air Lines, Inc. is a major American airline, with its headquarters and largest hub at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Regional service is operated under the brand name Delta Connection, One of the five remaining legacy carriers, Delta is the sixth-oldest operating airline by foundation date, and the oldest airline still operating in the United States. The companys history can be traced back to Huff Daland Dusters, founded in 1924 in Macon, Georgia as a crop dusting operation. The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana, and was later renamed Delta Air Services, in reference to the nearby Mississippi Delta region, among predecessors of todays Delta Air Lines, Western Airlines and Northwest Airlines began flying passengers in 1926 and 1927, respectively. In 2013, Delta Air Lines was the worlds largest airline in terms of scheduled passengers carried, Delta Air Lines began as a crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters, Incorporated. The company was founded on May 30,1924 in Macon, Georgia and they flew a Huff-Daland Duster, the first true crop duster, designed to combat the boll weevil infestation of cotton crops. Collett E. Woolman, one of the directors, purchased the company on September 13,1928. Service began on June 17,1929 with the flight between Dallas, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi. Delta moved its headquarters to its current location in Atlanta in 1941, and continued to grow through the addition of routes and they replaced propeller planes with jets in the 1960s and entered international competition to Europe in the 1970s and across the Pacific in the 1980s. Deltas more recent history is marked by its emergence from bankruptcy on April 25,2007, the merger was announced April 14,2008, and was set to create the worlds largest airline. After approval of the merger on October 29,2008, Northwest continued to operate as an owned subsidiary of Delta until December 31,2009 when both carriers operating certificates were merged. Delta completed the integration with Northwest on January 31,2010 when their reservation systems and websites were combined, Delta Air Lines as it exists today is the result of numerous mergers over its history. Predecessor carriers forming the current Delta Air Lines include, Chicago, Delta flew under the carrier name of Delta-C&S for the following two years. After successfully introducing 50-seat planes into the United States, it was acquired by Delta in October 1999, Comair became the main carrier of Delta Connection and operated over 400 daily flights from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport throughout the U. S. Mexico, and Caribbean. Comair ceased operations on September 29,2012, and was folded into Delta Connection operations, Delta Express began service in October 1996 in an attempt by Delta to compete with low cost airlines on leisure-oriented routes. Its main base of operations was Orlando International Airport and it used Boeing 737–200 aircraft and it ceased operations in November 2003 after Song was established. Song began service on April 15,2003 as an airline operated by Delta to compete directly with JetBlue Airways from both airlines hub at New York–JFK. While the brand was considered an addition to the Northeast-to-Florida market
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Seminole County Sheriff's Office (Florida)
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The Seminole County Sheriffs Office is the chief law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Seminole County, Florida, USA. The current sheriff is Dennis M. Lemma who took office on January 3,2017, the Sheriff provides the overall leadership, strategic direction and management for the Sheriff’s Office. The Office of the General Counsel, which all legal issues associated with the agency’s patrol, investigations, jail, juvenile. The Office of General Counsel is responsible for agency representation, preparing legal opinions and legislative proposals, training, contract review, the Seminole Neighborhood Policing Division which provides all uniformed patrol activities, conducts general investigations, and delivers a variety of safety and prevention services. Child Protective Services conducts child protective investigations, the Division also houses the Crimes Against Children Unit. The Juvenile Justice Division offers a spectrum of services to target. This division includes the Juvenile Assessment Center, the Juvenile Detention Center, the School Safety Division leads the safety and security initiatives for all schools throughout Seminole County, regardless of jurisdiction. It also houses all of our school resource deputies, the Department of Administrative Services supports the human, fiscal, and business functions of the agency. Fiscal Services handles budget preparation and payroll, accounts payable, contracts maintenance, facilities, fleet, human Resources coordinates employee hiring, records, benefits, recruitment and health and wellness. Grant Management evaluates, applies for and maintains all grant accounts within the Sheriff’s Office, the Technology Solutions Division provides computer and technology support to members of the Sheriff’s Office, as well as outside agencies. The Communications Center handles all incoming calls for service for law enforcement within unincorporated Seminole County, the Division is charged with ensuring these facilities are secure and able to conduct court-related functions for the 18th Judicial Circuit of Florida. The division also houses the The Civil Section who carry out the statutory responsibility for the service of process. This department is responsible for services and manages the care, custody. The mission of JEPCF is to provide a facility that ensures the safety of the public, provides a safe working climate for employees. The Probation Division includes county probation, EMPACT monitoring and other probation functions, the Probation Certifications Division oversees probation accreditation and certification, correctional volunteers, civilian training, and special projects. Each accrediting body has fixed standards that an agency must initially demonstrate compliance with, accreditation typically includes an extensive review of an agency’s policies, procedures and protocols as well as an on-site inspection and interviews with key personnel
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Lehigh Valley International Airport
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Lehigh Valley International Airport is a public airport in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Parts of it are in Catasauqua and Allen Township, Northampton County and it is 3 miles northeast of Allentown, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, the third most-populous metropolitan region in the state. It is owned and operated by the Lehigh–Northampton Airport Authority, for 2012 the FAA has categorized ABE airport as a nonhub but in previous years the FAA categorized the airport as a small hub. The airport is about 75 driving miles from Philadelphia International Airport,80 driving miles from Newark Liberty International Airport and 55 driving miles from Trenton-Mercer Airport. Lehigh Valley International Airport opened in 1929 and is one of the few in the United States of America that serves its community from its original location. Scheduled airline flights began on September 16,1935 by United Airlines Boeing 247s, the airport hangar served as the passenger terminal, the first terminal building at the airport was built in 1938 as a Works Projects Administration project. During World War II the U. S. Navy V-5 flight training program was conducted at the airport in conjunction with training held at Muhlenberg College. In addition, Headquarters of Group 312 of the Civil Air Patrol was at Allentown–Bethlehem Airport, one of its activities was to provide a courier service for cargo defense plants. Allentown CAP pilots also patrolled the Atlantic coastline, and was active in recruiting men for the air cadet program of the Army Air Force. By January 1944 work on a new runway was completed and a Class A United States Weather Bureau station had been installed, about 1,000 Naval Aviation Cadets had been trained during 1943, and a large increase in the amount of civilian and military air traffic had occurred. In late July, the War Production Board approved the construction of a second addition to the administration building. The building housed the Lehigh Aircraft Company, the weather station, the Civil Aeronautic communications station. In August, the V-5 flight training program ended when the Navy decided to move all flight training to air bases under Navy pilots. In April 1946 the Lehigh Airport Authority was created to own, the October 1946 C&GS diagram shows four runways forming an asterisk, runway 1 was 2680 ft long,6 was 4000 ft,9 was 3800 ft and 14 was 3100 ft. A new passenger terminal began construction in 1948 and was finished in 1950, allentown–Bethlehem–Easton airport, as it was now called, had flights on United, Trans World Airlines since 1947, and Colonial Airlines since 1949–50. DC-4s and DC-6s appeared after runway 6 was extended to 5,000 ft. TWA left in 1967, replaced by Allegheny, Colonials successor Eastern remained until 1991. Republic DC-9 nonstop flights to Detroit started in 1986, regional partners replaced successor Northwest around 2003, delta started nonstop flights to Atlanta in 1991 and its partner took over in 2002. In 1960 Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy made campaign stops at ABE, construction began on the present terminal in 1973 and the project, designed by Wallace & Watson, was completed in 1976
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Appleton International Airport
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Appleton International Airport, formerly Outagamie County Regional Airport, is an airport located in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States, just west of Appleton in the town of Greenville. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 and it is the fourth-busiest commercial airport in Wisconsin in terms of passengers served. It is the base of privately owned regional airline Air Wisconsin and was the original home of Midwest Airlines. The airport also attracts people heading back and forth between the EAAs AirVenture, Air Academy and other programs in nearby Oshkosh, Appleton International is also used for people heading to events at Lambeau Field in nearby Green Bay, most popularly Green Bay Packers games. The airport opened with the 5, 200-foot runway 12/30 around 1965. In 1933, Appletons airport was George A. Whiting Field, three south of town, by 1936 the municipal airport had opened northeast of town on the south side of US41. At its closing, it had a 3, 750-foot paved runway, the Outagamie County Board rejected a proposal in 1983 to change the name to Fox Cities Metro Airport, and three more name change efforts failed between 2003 and 2011. In February 2014, the county voted to rename the airport Appleton International Airport. The new name was implemented in 2015 on August 21. The airport covers 1,638 acres at an elevation of 918 feet above sea level and it has 2 concrete runways, Runway 3/21,8,002 x 150 ft, Surface, Concrete, ILS/DME equipped, with approved GPS and VOR/DME approaches. Runway 12/30,6,501 x 150 ft, Surface, Concrete, ILS/DME equipped, in 2015, the airport had 33,679 aircraft operations, an average of 92 per day, 63% general aviation, 23% air taxi, 13% commercial airline and 1% military. In March 2017, there were 71 aircraft based at airport,50 single-engine,17 multi-engine and 4 jet. The airport added a new ground level seven-gate concourse in 2000 and renovated the passenger terminal. The architectural theme was representative of the river flowing through the paper manufacturing region. The terminal was built in 1974, with expansions in 1983,1990, the terminal underwent its most extensive renovation and expansion to date in 2001. It cost $10.7 million and was designed by Mead & Hunt, the new facility officially opened in January 2017. This will be the start of a renovation project at the airport. In 2017, work will begin in the terminal with the addition of a baggage claim belt, meeting rooms, a brand new restaurant with airfield views
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Asheville Regional Airport
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Asheville Regional Airport is a Class C airport near Interstate 26 near the town of Fletcher,9 miles south of downtown Asheville, in the U. S. state of North Carolina, United States. It is owned by the Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority, in 2016 it served an all-time record number of passengers for the airport,826,648, an increase of 5% over 2015 and the third consecutive year of record traffic. It opened in 1961, replacing the airport at 35. 439°N82. 481°W /35.439, Asheville Regional Airport covers 900 acres and has one asphalt runway, measuring 8,001 x 150 ft. In 2015 the airport had 63,182 aircraft operations, an average 173 per day, 66% general aviation, 16% air taxi, 9% scheduled commercial and 9% military. In March 2017, there were 133 aircraft based at airport,107 single-engine,9 multi-engine,16 jet and 1 military. Chartered Boeing 747s have also visited, as has an Airbus A340 during the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, aVLs 8, 001-foot runway allows for the operation of almost any aircraft type. In April 2010, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama landed in Asheville aboard Air Force One for a weekend getaway. In October 2011, President Obama landed in Asheville aboard the larger Air Force One to kick off his North Carolina and he gave a speech at the airport, and cited potential enhancements at the airport as part of the jobs push. President Obama returned to Asheville on February 13,2013 on the aircraft for a brief visit. The terminal building opened on June 7,1961, a $20 million expansion and renovation project began in 1987. The expansion project was completed in 1992, which resulted in expansion of the lobby, baggage claim area. A second-level boarding area and jetways were constructed, as well as an atrium to the existing lobby, the ground-level boarding areas were expanded and renovated in 2003, which was designed by McCreary/Snow Architects, PA and built by Wilkie Construction Company, Inc. In 2009, $17.8 million of improvements were completed, including a Guest Services center, an additional baggage carousel, rental car desks, offices and security enhancements. As part of Project SOAR, an airport improvement project. Also, the runway does not meet the most current Federal Aviation Administration requirements that were put in place long after the runway was originally constructed. In December 2015, a runway was opened that is west of the existing runway. The temporary runway 35 Instrument Landing System will be operational, and it should be noted that the runway magnetic compass heading has shifted slightly over the years, and runway 16/34 will be renamed to runway 17/35. On July 19,1967 Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Boeing 727, collided in mid-air with a Cessna 310 just south of the airport in Hendersonville, the collision happened just moments after the 727 took off from the Asheville Airport
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Bangor International Airport
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Bangor International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport on the west side of the city of Bangor, in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Owned and operated by the City of Bangor, the airport has a runway measuring 11,440 by 200 ft. The airport owes its prosperity to its location on major air corridors between Europe and the East Coast of the United States, Bangor International is operated as an enterprise fund, which means that the expense of operating it comes from airport revenue. Revenues are generated by air operations, resident aviation-related industrial companies, real estate, cargo, international charter flights. One of three airports in the state, it serves the residents of central, eastern. It was designated by NASA as a landing location for the Space Shuttle. Bangor International Airport began as Godfrey Field in 1921, on land owned by local attorney Edward Rawson Godfrey, amelia Earhart was a celebrity pilot on some of the earliest flights for Boston-Maine Airways in the 1930s. The airport was equipped with floodlights for night flights as early as 1937, in 1940, Boston-Maine became Northeast Airlines, which eventually merged with Delta Air Lines in 1972. 1941 saw the first fatal crash of an aircraft in Maine. Just before World War II, Godfrey Field was taken over by the Army Air Corps and it was operated until 1968 as Dow Air Force Base, and still later as Bangor Air National Guard Base. In 1948, Bangor was one stop on the flight of Richarda Morrow-Tait. She landed at Dow but took off for the leg from the airport in nearby Old Town. The Canadian authorities refused her permission to hop the Atlantic and ordered her back to Bangor and she defied them and completed the trip. In the 1950s and 1960s, Bangor was a destination for Northeast Airlines before its merger into Delta, Northeast usually used the Douglas DC-6 for service between Bangor and Boston and New York. In 1965, there was still a single weekly DC-3 flight to Bangor operated by Northeast Airlines, in 1968, Dow AFB was closed as an active duty Air Force installation. Most of the base was purchased by the city and reopened the following year as Bangor International Airport, the portion of Dow AFB not turned over to the city became the basis for the current Air National Guard Base and the Maine Army National Guards Army Aviation Support Facility. In October 1969, a Trans World Airlines plane that had been hijacked in California refueled in Bangor on its way to Rome, where the hijacker was captured. Bangor was a refueling stop, and as a U. S. Port of Entry, passengers could go through customs
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MidAmerica St. Louis Airport
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Scott Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and OFallon,25 miles East of downtown St. Louis. Scott Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entered World War I in April 1917 and it is part of the Air Mobility Command, and is also the headquarters of the U. S. Transportation Command, a Unified Combatant Command that coordinates transportation across all the services, the base currently employs 13,000 people,5,100 civilians with 5,500 active-duty Air Force, and an additional 2,400 Air National Guard and Reserve personnel. It was announced in June 2014 that two new cybersecurity squadrons will be added to the three currently on base and its airfield is also used by civilian aircraft, with civilian operations at the base referring to the facility as MidAmerica St. Louis Airport. MidAmerica has operated as a Joint Use Airport since beginning operations in November 1997, allegiant Air, the only commercial with scheduled flights at the airport, pulled out of the airport on January 3,2009, but resumed direct flights to Orlando in 2012. During World War I, Secretary of War Newton Baker advocated a role for aviation. Business and political leaders on both sides of the Mississippi River wanted the Midwest to be chosen as a site for one of the new flying fields. Aerial expert Albert Bond Lambert joined the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, after inspecting several sites, the U. S. War Department agreed to the lease June 14,1917, congress appropriated $10 million for its construction, and 2,000 laborers and carpenters were immediately put to work. The layout of Scott Field was typical of aviation fields built during World War I, the government gave the Unit Construction Company 60 days to erect approximately 60 buildings, lay a mile-long railroad spur, and to level off an airfield with a 1,600 foot landing circle. Scott Field began as a field for World War I pilots in August 1917 when the 11th and 21st Aero Squadrons from Kelly Field, Texas. Construction was completed in August, and the first flight from Scott Field occurred 2 September 1917, Flying instruction began 11 September 1917. Later the 85th and 86th Aero Squadrons arrived, and more than 300 pilots, a. Reinburg, made the first flight from Scott Field in a Standard J-1 two-seater biplane. At least seven J-1s were already on Scott, by the time the first Curtiss JN-4D Jenny arrived, operable from the front or rear seat, the 8-cylinder, 90- horsepower, Jenny would become the primary trainer used on Scott Field. Everything moved fast in an environment, including the dangerous act of learning to fly airplanes. A judgment error or weather shift could produce severe accidents in the aircraft of the day. Determined to improve the recovery of Scotts downed pilots, Captains Charles Bayless, Early Hoag, etheridge, along with Second Lieutenant Seth Thomas, designed two air ambulances, or hospital planes—using a configuration likely modeled after one in use at Gerstner Field, Louisiana. By the summer of 1918, Scott Fields engineering department had completed the rear cockpit modifications needed to convert two Jennies, not long thereafter, on 24 August 1918, as aviator with a broken leg became Scotts first air evacuated patient
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Central Illinois Regional Airport
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Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal is a public airport in McLean County, Illinois, three miles east of Bloomington and southeast of Normal. Owned by the Bloomington-Normal Airport Authority, it is known as Central Illinois Regional Airport. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a commercial service airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 262,846 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008,243,448 in 2009 and 274,677 in 2010. The 2013 Federal sequester would have resulted in the closure of the control tower. The airport dates to the spring of 1927 when farmer Herman Will opened a 70-plus-acre tract in rural Normal Township, bordering the field to the west was the recently paved Illinois 2, and to the east was the Illinois Central Railroad. Along the IC, at the northeast corner of the grounds, was Kerrick. The Bloomington Flying Club helped rally the public and local leaders behind the economic promise of “heavier-than-air” flight. The club owned a “Jenny”-type open-cockpit biplane, and the non-profit organization evidently helped pay for both the construction of a hangar and day-to-day operations of the field. Will offered to rent the field to the city of Bloomington for $1,000 a year, but there was little enthusiasm for a municipally owned or operated airport. In 1928 the Normal field featured a six-plane hangar, filling pump, wind cone, local and visiting pilots staged an air show of “stunts and jumps and aerial tricks, ” according to The Pantagraph. There was “premier” stunt pilot Steve Lacey, representing the Air King factory in Lomax, Henderson County, Ill. winslow, who thrilled spectators by freeing himself from a straight jacket during flight. A few weeks after the dedication, the U. S. Department of Commerce placed the Normal field on its list of officially recognized airports. The following summer, on July 11,1929, a crowd, estimated at 15,000. Billed at the time as the greatest such event in Illinois outside of Chicago, despite the efforts of local aviation enthusiasts and the business community, attempts to establish long-term passenger service at the Normal field ended in failure. In the fall of 1931, Century Air Lines added Bloomington to its Chicago-to-St, louis route, and the little grassy square now served as an aerial portal to the wider world. Unfortunately the wet winter of 1931-1932 made the field too mushy for the carrier’s Stinson tri-motor airplanes. The following spring, American Airways assumed Century’s role, but after two days the company terminated service to the little airfield, and once more Bloomington lost its place on the air map
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The Eastern Iowa Airport
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The Eastern Iowa Airport is a commercial airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, on Wright Brothers Boulevard on the south edge of town, about two miles west of Interstate 380. The airport in recent years has served almost entirely by regional jets. Delta now offers Boeing 717 flights to Atlanta and this summer United will upgrade all flights to Denver on Airbus 319s, the airport sees five airlines with non-stop flights to thirteen cities. The airport has 13 gates, six gates on the concourse have jet bridge boarding. Concourse B will be renovated beginning this summer to add a level and 3 more gates. Arriving passengers have a walk to the baggage claim area. Several national rental car company counters and a courtesy shuttle counter are in this area, on July 8,2016 the airport announced new twice daily service from CID to Charlotte. The service will start November 4,2016 and will be flown on CRJ-700 aircraft by PSA Airlines on behalf of American Airlines and this will mark the 13th destination out of Cedar Rapids and the newest destination since 2014 when service to Los Angeles was announced. On June 3,2010, Runway 9/27 closed for reconstruction, a temporary runway had been set up parallel to the closed runway. Beginning July 3,2010, and lasting for 4 weeks, Cedar Rapids first airport was Hunter Field, a private airport established by Dan Hunter in the 1920s on Bowling Street SW north of U. S. Highway 30. The airport was used for charter service, pilot training, and airmail. Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport was completed with funding in 1944 but was not dedicated until April 27,1947. Scheduled east-west passenger service from United Airlines began in 1947, by 1969 the airport had 31 airline flights per day and recorded 353,000 passengers a year. The present terminal designed by Brown, Healey, Bock Architects, the Cedar Rapids Airport was renamed The Eastern Iowa Airport in 1997 to reflect its status as a regional airport. In 2008 the airport enplaned and deplaned one million passengers for the first time in its history, Eastern Iowa Airport has two passenger concourses, Concourse B with gates B1–B7, and Concourse C with gates C1–C6. Airport Director Donald Swanson, Director of Finance & Administration Todd Gibbs and he ejected safely, while the aircraft ran off the runway. A Grumman G-159 Gulfstream I took off from Cedar Rapids to Dallas-Addison Airport in Dallas, Texas, the aircraft encountered heavy rain on short final, and attempted a go around. The plane crashed on the runway on its attempt to land
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Concord Regional Airport
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Concord Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located seven nautical miles west of the central business district of Concord, a city in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, United States. According to the FAAs National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, because of the multiple race teams that base aircraft fleets at JQF and its close proximity to Charlotte Motor Speedway, the airport is sometimes referred to as NASCARs Airport. Concord Regional Airport covers an area of 750 acres at an elevation of 705 feet above sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with a surface measuring 7,400 by 100 feet. For the 12-month period ending June 30,2009, the airport had 68,542 aircraft operations, at that time there were 164 aircraft based at this airport, 52% single-engine, 27% multi-engine, 16% jet and 5% helicopter. Since the airports expansion of its runway to accommodate mid-size commercial aircraft in the early 2000s, teams charter flights out of Concord Regional instead of Charlotte Douglas because of its affordability and proximity to their headquarters. On August 20,2013, Allegiant Air announced it would begin nonstop jet service between Concord and Orlando Sanford International Airport in December 2013. Since then the airline has expanded its service to several other vacation destinations in Florida as well as announcing new nonstop service to New Orleans. An existing hangar to the left of the terminal was converted to a separate temporary terminal for this new commercial service. A larger permanent commercial service terminal opened in October 2016, according to FlightAware, Allegiant serves the airport with Airbus A320 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jetliners. Concord Regional Airport, official site Concord Regional Airport
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Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
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The airport is owned and operated by the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Authority. It is a Class C airport serviced by Chattanooga Approach, Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport has a single concourse with five gates. Commercial service is provided by United Express, Delta Air Lines, American Eagle, general aviation is serviced by Wilson Air Center FBO. The general aviation ramp is split into two locations, with one on the South side of the terminal, and the other to the North. The locations are referred to as Air North and Air South. General aviation can find service at either location, in August 2011, Wilson Air Center opened up a facility on the west side of the field. Currently, a flight from Chattanooga to Atlanta can take 18 minutes flying on a Canadair Regional Jet or Delta Air Lines MD-80, when flight operations in Atlanta are interrupted, Chattanooga is one of the first airports to receive diversions. It has been proposed that a new high-speed rail line be constructed from the airport to MARTA in metro Atlanta, Chattanooga was a stopover on the Contract Air Mail route served by Interstate Airlines between Atlanta, Georgia and Chicago, Illinois. Charles Lindbergh, the aviator who had piloted the Spirit of St. Louis over the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927. In 1930, due to the interest and foresight of John Lovell, in 1936, the landing area was expanded and runways paved as a part of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration. The original terminal building was built at that time. During World War II, Lovell Field served as a training facility. The original terminal building, dating from the 1930s, was expanded in 1950 and 1955 by the city before being replaced by a new building in 1964. The Airports ownership was transferred from Chattanooga to the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Authority in July 1985, the current passenger terminal, designed by Gensler, opened in 1992. Lovell Field covers an area of 950 acres which contains two paved runways, 2/20 measuring 7,400 x 150 ft and 15/33 measuring 5,575 x 150 ft. The largest aircraft serving the airport are the MD-80 series operated by Allegiant Air. For the 12-month period ending July 31,2014, the airport had 55,497 aircraft operations, there are 96 aircraft based at this airport, 51% jet, 36% single-engine, 12% multi-engine and 1% helicopter. After picking up the money, which actually amounted to between $2 million and $2.5 million, the plane took off, bound for Havana
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