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Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport (IATA: FLL, ICAO: KFLL, FAA LID: FLL) – also known as Fort Lauderdale Airport and historically as Merle Fogg Field and Broward County International Airport – is a major public airport located in Broward County, Florida, United States, roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of downtown Fort Lauderdale and 21 miles (34 km) north of Miami.
In 1942, the U.S. Navy selected Merle Fogg Airport in Fort Lauderdale to expand into a naval air station for both pilot and enlisted aircrew training (i.e., gunners, radiomen) in Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers flown by carrier-based US Navy flight crews and by land-based US Marine Corps flight crews ashore. [1]
Fort Lauderdale: FLL: FLL KFLL Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: P-L 13,598,994 Fort Myers: RSW: RSW KRSW Southwest Florida International Airport: P-M 5,080,805 Fort Walton Beach: VPS: VPS KVPS Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport / Eglin Air Force Base: P-S 973,477 Gainesville: GNV: GNV KGNV Gainesville Regional Airport: P-N ...
Initially realigned as Buckley ANGB, now Buckley Space Force Base: Naval Air Station Ellyson Field: Pensacola: Florida: Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale: Fort Lauderdale: Florida: Now Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport: Naval Air Station Glenview: Glenview: Illinois: Naval Air Station Glynco: Brunswick: Georgia: Now Brunswick ...
February 3, 1981 : A mid-air Cessna plane collision killed six people at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. Dale C. Hiatt and his father Alvia Hiatt were among those killed. [5] On February 20, 2004, a Learjet 25B owned by Skylinks Jets overran runway 8 by about 1,750 feet (530 m). The aircraft touched down midway along the runway.
When is the Fort Lauderdale Air Show? Dates: Saturday and Sunday, April 29-30. Performance times: 11:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. both days. Blue Angles headliner performances are at 2 p.m. both days ...
The building was located at 4050 Southwest 14th Avenue in the former NAS Ft Lauderdale where it had been designated, "Building #8. [2] At the end of 1999, the building, which weighs 300 short tons (270 metric tons), was cut from the old foundation and jacked up hydraulically to be moved out of the airport and to its current location at 4000 West Perimeter Road in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
"United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations". UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010.