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Pensacola Bay Center (formerly Pensacola Civic Center) is an indoor arena located in Pensacola, Florida. It is owned by Escambia County and operated by ASM Global . The Bay Center has a capacity of 8,049 for hockey games, and as much as 10,000 for non-hockey events.
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]
The United States Navy's Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) is one of the learning centers of Naval Education and Training Command, headquartered on Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station in Escambia County, Florida.
The U.S. Navy leased what was then known as "Felton's Farm Field" for use as an outlying field of NAS Pensacola from 1933 and it purchased the 866.62 acres (3.5071 km 2) site on 16 August 1939. [5] The base opened for operations on 26 August 1940 [ 6 ] and is named after Lieutenant (junior grade) Richard C. Saufley , USN, Naval Aviator No. 14.
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]
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 ...
Pensacola was first settled by the Spanish Empire in 1559, antedating the establishment of St. Augustine by six years, [8] but was abandoned due to a significant hurricane and not re-established until 1698. [9] Pensacola is a seaport on Pensacola Bay, which is protected by the barrier island of Santa Rosa and connects to the Gulf of Mexico.
Pensacola Private School Of Liberal Arts (SOLA) is a non-sectarian private secondary school in Pensacola, Florida, established in 1969 by William J. Holston to be an alternative to public schools in the area. The school focuses on instructing small classes of students (reportedly less than 18) in grades 7-12. [3]