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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–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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Homestead Army Air Base, 6.0 miles (9.7 km) east-northeast of Homestead; Station 8, Caribbean Wing, ATC 563d Army Air Force Base Unit Was: Dade County Airport (1945-1955) Was: Homestead Air Force Base (1955-1994) Now: Homestead Air Reserve Base (1994-Present) (IATA: HST, ICAO: KHST, FAA LID: HST) Miami Army Airfield (36th Street Airport), Miami
Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale; Fort Madison, Nuku Hiva ... Narsarsuaq Air Base; ... Naval Amphibious Training Base Fort Pierce;
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US Navy base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar and fire control operator training schools, and a Coast Guard base at Port Everglades. After the war ended, service members returned to the area, spurring an enormous population explosion which dwarfed the 1920s boom.