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Jacksonville International Airport (IATA: JAX, ICAO: KJAX, FAA LID: JAX) is a civil-military public airport 13 miles (21 km) north of Downtown Jacksonville, in Duval County, Florida. It is owned and operated by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority .
This is a list of airports in Florida (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Jacksonville International Airport: Terminated: Miami: Miami International Airport: Base [11] Orlando: Orlando International Airport: Base: Pensacola: Pensacola International Airport [12] Tampa: Tampa International Airport: West Palm Beach: Palm Beach International Airport: United States : Atlanta: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International ...
The primary responsibility of Jacksonville Center is sequencing and separation of over-flights, arrivals, and departures in order to provide safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of aircraft filed under instrument flight rules . Jacksonville Center is the fourth-busiest ARTCC in the United States.
Herlong Recreational Airport (ICAO: KHEG, FAA LID: HEG), also known as Herlong Field, then Herlong Airport, is a public airport located eight nautical miles (13 km) southwest of the central business district of Jacksonville, a city in Duval County, Florida, United States.
Jacksonville International Airport is the major regional passenger air service provider, featuring non-stop flights to dozens of major US cities. The facility was opened in 1968 as a replacement for Imeson Field. A major renovation was begun in 2007.
The now famous U.S. Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, who had called NAS Jacksonville home but later moved to NAS Corpus Christi in the late 1940s, performed a last air show at the station on April 29, 1950, before forming the nucleus of an operational fighter squadron, VF-191 (Satan's Kittens), which was assigned to combat ...
The airport was designated a "reliever airport" for general aviation overflow from Jacksonville International Airport. In the mid-1980s, Grumman St. Augustine was tasked with a major military contract for "re-winging" nearly all A-6 Intruder carrier-based medium attack bombers for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.