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State Road 87 contains a 19.4-mile (31.2 km) section extending northward from US 98 at Navarre, Florida to US 90 just east of Milton, Florida. This portion of SR 87 is marked as SR 87 South. On this stretch it passes through the western edge of the Eglin Air Force Base training range.
State Road 397 from Valparaiso to Eglin Air Force Base; unnumbered through Eglin Air Force Base; State Road 85 from south of Eglin Air Force Base to Fort Walton Beach; State Road 30 from Fort Walton Beach to Navarre; State Road 87 from Navarre to Milton; State Road 10 from Milton to Riverview; State Road 10A from Riverview to Pensacola
State Road 397 (SR 397) is a 3.199-mile-long (5.148 km) state highway in Okaloosa County, Florida, that runs from Florida State Road 85 on the northern border of Eglin Air Force Base to Florida State Road 85 in western Niceville via Valparaiso. SR 397 is split into two segments by Eglin AFB.
State Road 189 (SR 189) is a north–south highway in the panhandle of Florida. It leads from U.S. Route 98 in downtown Fort Walton Beach to just east of State Road 85 at the Eglin AFB West Gate where its southern section terminates.
Eglin Air Force Base (IATA: VPS, ICAO: KVPS, FAA LID: VPS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida Panhandle, located about three miles (5 km) southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County. The host unit at Eglin is the 96th Test Wing (formerly the 96th Air Base Wing).
Buck Pond is a small reservoir on Eglin Air Force Base, southeast of Milton, Florida and north of Navarre, Florida. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Constructed in Santa Rosa County, the westernmost of Eglin's ten satellite fields, Auxiliary Field 10 was originally named Dillon Field for Captain Barclay H. Dillon, United States Army Air Forces, a test pilot of the Fighter Section of the 1st Proving Ground Group, Eglin Field, killed 2 October 1943 when his P-38J-5-LO Lightning, AAF Ser. No. 42-67103, crashed 8 miles W of Milton, Florida. [1]
Navarre is centered near the junction of U.S. Highway 98, the primary east–west route between Pensacola and the Fort Walton Beach area, and State Road 87. It is located near several large military facilities: Naval Air Station Pensacola to the west; Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force Base to the east; and Naval Air Station Whiting Field to ...