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The airport sits on 13,555 acres (5,486 ha, 21.2 sq.mi.) [5] [6] of land just southeast of Fort Myers, making it the third-largest airport in the United States in terms of land size (after Denver and Dallas/Fort Worth). 6,000 acres of the land has been conserved as swamp lands and set aside for environmental mitigation. [7]
Patrick S. Carlopoli (born June 7, 1988) and Tammy Jo Modlin (March 28, 1972 – January 24, 2016) are an American couple who entered into a murder-suicide pact in Fort Myers, Florida. In 2016, Patrick and Tammy conspired to kill Tammy's children, one of whom was Patrick's daughter, then each other.
On January 4, 1985, an armed 42-year-old Cleveland woman named Oranette Mays hijacked Pan Am flight 558, a Boeing 727 scheduled to fly from Cleveland to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. During the boarding process for the flight in Cleveland, Mays shot her way onto the plane, shooting and injuring a USAir employee who ...
The Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (also FGCU) refer to the fifteen intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Florida Gulf Coast University, located in unincorporated Lee County, Florida near Fort Myers, in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, and tennis; women's-only: softball, swimming and diving, indoor volleyball, and beach volleyball ...
At first, the USAAF called the airport Fort Myers Army Air Base; eventually the field would be named Page Field to honor Captain Richard Page, a World War I aviator killed in a seaplane accident near Everglades, Florida on March 3, 1920. Captain Page was the first person from Florida to join the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps.
Frontier Airlines briefly served PGD in late 2016 to mid 2017 offering flights to Philadelphia, Chicago-O'Hare, and Trenton which had been relocated from nearby Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers. [18] After the tourist season of that year, Frontier discontinued service to PGD and shifted the flights back to Fort Myers. [19]
Western Global Airlines was founded on March 6, 2013, by Jim Neff. [2] It was certified by the United States Department of Transportation on February 24, 2014, with FAA approval being granted on August 1, 2014, for operations using the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F.
A Curtiss C-46 operating a flight from Newark Airport to Tampa, Florida crashed shortly after take-off, hitting a house next to the Elizabeth River. All 58 people on board were killed. National Airlines Flight 101, a Douglas DC-6, crashed shortly after take-off from Newark Airport on February 11, 1952. The aircraft impacted a residential ...