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Saufley Field (IATA: NUN, ICAO: KNUN, FAA LID: NUN) is a military airport and support facility located in unincorporated Escambia County, Florida, United States, [2] five nautical miles (9 km) west of the central business district of Pensacola.
Pensacola International Airport [3] (IATA: PNS, ICAO: KPNS, FAA LID: PNS), formerly Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport and Pensacola Regional Airport (Hagler Field), and temporarily branded Pensacola Intergalactic Airport each February in recognition of the local Pensacon convention, is a public use airport three nautical miles (6 km; 3 mi) northeast of the central business district of ...
The museum is devoted to the history of naval aviation, including that of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard.Its mission is "to select, collect, preserve and display" appropriate memorabilia representative of the development, growth and historic heritage of United States Naval Aviation. [2]
H-19 and H-34 helicopters of HT-8 over NAS Ellyson Field in 1967. UH-34Gs airborne at NAS Ellyson Field c.(Dec'67-Jan'68) Naval Air Station Ellyson Field was a former U.S. Navy training base, established in Escambia County, Florida in 1940 at the outset of World War II as an auxiliary facility to Chevalier Field at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
The first lighthouse built by the U.S. on the Florida coast. Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (IATA: NPA, ICAO: KNPA, FAA LID: NPA) (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a ...
In 2006, the Bureau of Prisons decided to cut costs by closing the Federal Prison Camp, Eglin, which was located at Eglin Air Force Base, in Okaloosa County, Florida, and moving the inmates to FPC Pensacola. [4] In July 2009, Forbes magazine listed the prison as the number two "cushiest prison" in the United States. [5]
Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station (NASP Corry Station), Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC), formerly known as Naval Technical Training Center Corry Station in Florida, United States, is a sub-installation of nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola that hosts several of the Navy's Information Warfare Corps training commands.
Locally known as Airport Boulevard, State Road 750 (SR 750) is a 3.3-mile-long (5.3 km) spur from Ninth Avenue in Pensacola to the entrance of Pensacola International Airport. The western terminus is an intersection with Pensacola Boulevard ( U.S. Route 29 or US 29 and SR 95 ).