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68-544: This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of BKV by the Federal Aviation Administration , but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code . Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport covers an area of 2,402 acres (972 ha) which contains two concrete paved runways : 9/27 measuring 7,001 x 150 ft (2,134 x 46 m) and 3/21 measuring 5,014 x 150 ft (1,528 x 46 m). On October 15, 2012,

136-519: A day on Eastern Air Lines: nonstops to Chicago-Midway, Detroit (Willow Run), Cleveland, New York Idlewild (now JFK), Boston, seven nonstops to Atlanta and 18 within Florida. National Airlines had 26 departures, including seven nonstops beyond Florida to Houston Hobby, Havana, Washington National, New York/Idlewild and three to New Orleans. Trans-Eastern had 12 departures and Mackey had two DC-3s, none nonstop beyond Florida. Trans-Canada had thirteen nonstops

204-456: A few years before eventually being demolished, with the current Airside E opening in 2002. The Landside Terminal was also remodeled multiple times during the 1980s and 1990s. Airside C and the abandoned Airside B were demolished in the mid-2000s, with the current Airside C opening in 2005. Airside D, the last original airside, was then closed permanently and was demolished in 2007. Both Delta Air Lines and US Airways opened maintenance bases at

272-540: A four-character identifier, such as 1CA9 for Los Angeles County Fire Department Heliport. The location identifiers are coordinated with the Transport Canada Identifiers described below. In general, the FAA has authority to assign all three-letter identifiers (except those beginning with the letters K, N, W, and Y), all three- and four-character alphanumeric identifiers, and five-letter identifiers for

340-406: A heavy and medium bomber training base, assigning the following squadrons to the airfield: In March 1944, Brooksville was reassigned to Third Air Force and it became an auxiliary airfield of MacDill Army Airfield (now MacDill AFB ) and Drew Army Airfield (now Tampa International Airport ). The airfield came under the jurisdiction of the 377th Army Air Forces Base Unit, Squadron "A" becoming

408-649: A staffed air traffic control facility or navigational aid within airport boundary; to airports that receive scheduled route air carrier or military airlift service, and to airports designated by the United States Customs Service as airports of entry . Some of these identifiers are assigned to certain aviation weather reporting stations. Most one-digit, two-letter identifiers have been assigned to aviation weather reporting and observation stations and special-use locations. Some of these identifiers may be assigned to public-use landing facilities within

476-535: A week to Toronto or Montreal. The 1952 terminal, built for three airlines, was swamped after the Civil Aeronautics Board granted Capital , Delta , Northeast , Northwest and Trans World Airlines authority to fly from Tampa in the late 1950s. An annex was built east of the terminal for the new carriers. Turbine-powered flights began in 1959 on Eastern Air Lines' L-188 Electra ; in 1960 National, Eastern and Delta Air Lines began jet flights with

544-432: Is 6,999 by 150 feet (2,133 × 46 m) with an Asphalt / concrete surface; 19L/1R is 8,300 by 150 feet (2,530 × 46 m) with an Asphalt / concrete surface; 19R/1L is 11,002 by 150 feet (3,353 × 46 m) with a concrete surface. On January 13, 2011 the runway designations changed due to a shift in the magnetic headings. 09/27 became 10/28, 18R/36L became 1L/19R, 18L/36R became 1R/19L. When the airport opened its doors in 1971,

612-579: Is a three- to five-character alphanumeric code identifying aviation-related facilities inside the United States, though some codes are reserved for, and are managed by other entities. For nearly all major airports, the assigned identifiers are alphabetic three-letter codes, such as ORD for Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Minor airfields are typically assigned a mix of alphanumeric characters, such as 8N2 for Skydive Chicago Airport and 0B5 for Turners Falls Airport . Private airfields are assigned

680-587: Is an international airport six miles (9.7 km) west of Downtown Tampa , in Hillsborough County, Florida , United States . The airport is publicly owned by Hillsborough County Aviation Authority (HCAA). The airport serves 100 non-stop destinations throughout North America , Central America , the Caribbean and Europe across multiple carriers. Tampa Bay is the birthplace of commercial airline service, when pioneer aviator Tony Jannus flew

748-569: Is host to Bombardier Transportation 's longest-running APM system. There are four active airsides (A, C, E, and F) with 59 gates. All were constructed after 1985 and all airsides include a food court and gift shop, as well as outdoor smoking patios. Airsides E and F contain duty-free shops in addition to the regular gift shops to serve passengers arriving or departing on international flights. Tampa International Airport covers an area of 3,300 acres (13 km ) at an elevation of 26 feet (7.9 m) above mean sea level . It has three runways : 10/28

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816-425: Is known as the "Spirit of Flight". The jetliner was modeled after those once used for supersonic transport —at the time the logo was created in the 1970s, it was during an era when it was thought that supersonic aircraft would replace conventional jets as a mode of air travel. In its early years, the 1971 terminal would also see large amounts of tourists heading to Walt Disney World , which also opened in 1971. This

884-547: Is listed with the national civilian code УХММ, the national military code ЬХММ, and the "international" UHMM. The World Meteorological Organization used a system of five-digit numeric station codes to represent synoptic weather stations. An example is 72295 for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). A modernization of WMO station identifiers was performed as part of the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS). A presentation at

952-525: Is located near the southern edge of airport property and is connected to the terminal via a new train called SkyConnect. Unlike the landside/airside shuttles, SkyConnect uses Mitsubishi Crystal Mover vehicles. The trains run between the three stations in a pinched-loop configuration. Passengers on most domestic flights also have the ability to check their luggage inside the Rental Car Center. Rental car services were originally located adjacent to

1020-596: Is no specific organization scheme to IATA identifiers; typically they take on the abbreviation of the airport or city such as MNL for Manila Ninoy Aquino Airport. In the United States, the IATA identifier usually equals the FAA identifier, but this is not always the case. A prominent example is Sawyer International Airport in Marquette, Michigan , which uses the FAA identifier SAW and the IATA identifier MQT. The Federal Aviation Administration location identifier (FAA LID)

1088-511: Is surrounded by four Airside satellites where airliner embarkment and disembarkment occur. Each Airside is connected to the Landside Terminal via an elevated automated people mover (APM) system which employs 16 Bombardier Innovia APM 100 Shuttle Cars , which are in the process of being replaced to Bombardier Innovia APM 300R C801B . TPA was the first airport in the world to deploy a fully automated, driver-free people mover system and

1156-573: Is the Master Station Catalog or MASLIB code. This is a 6-digit numeric code that is essentially the same scheme as the WMO station identifier but adds an extra digit, allowing many more stations to be indexed. This extra digit is always "0" when referencing an actual WMO station using the five-digit identifier, but may be 1..9 to reference other stations that exist in the vicinity. The MASLIB identifiers are not generally recognized outside

1224-519: The Douglas DC-8 (Delta was first, with a Chicago nonstop in May or June). National DC-8 nonstops to Los Angeles and weekly Pan American jets to Mexico City (MIA-TPA-MID-MEX) started in 1961. The 1952 terminal was congested as larger jets replaced piston airliners and it was again expanded. During the early 1960s, the aviation authority began planning a replacement terminal in an undeveloped site at

1292-527: The USFS RAWS system, and by the stream gauges operated by the USGS , both of which report through GOES weather satellites operated by NOAA . These use three letters which are a mnemonic for the location, followed by the first letter of the U.S. state , followed by a numeral indicating the alphabetical order within that letter (for example, North Carolina stations end with N7). The mnemonic may be

1360-695: The United States and its jurisdictions. The Department of the Navy assigns three-letter identifiers beginning with the letter N for the exclusive use of that department. Transport Canada assigns three-character identifiers beginning with Y. The block beginning with letter Q is under international telecommunications jurisdiction, but is used internally by FAA Technical Operations to identify National Airspace equipment not covered by any other identifying code system. The block beginning with Z identifies United States Air Route Traffic Control Centers . In practice,

1428-543: The 207-foot-tall (63 m) air traffic control tower opened, the tallest in the United States at the time. The Host/ Marriott Airport Hotel and its revolving rooftop restaurant opened in December 1973, with triple-paned windows and sound-proof guest rooms. Northwest Airlines and National Airlines brought the jumbo jet to the airport late in 1971 with the introduction of the Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 . This

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1496-583: The 856th Quartermaster Battalion and continues to house Detachment 1 of C Company, 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group . The armory facility also provides additional administrative space for AASF #2. The units at FL ARNG AASF #2 currently fly the UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter, with ten UH-60L aircraft assigned. Det 1 previously flew the C-23B Sherpa fixed-wing cargo aircraft until the C-23

1564-530: The American military services, assigns special use ICAO identifiers beginning with "KQ", for use by deployed units supporting real-world contingencies; deployed/in- garrison units providing support during exercises; classified operating locations; and units that have requested, but not yet received a permanent location identifier. One system still used by both the Air Force and National Climatic Data Center

1632-672: The Army Air Forces vacated the facility and Drew Field was returned to the City of Tampa. The Peter O. Knight Airport and Drew Field reversed roles as the main Tampa airport because Drew Field was greatly expanded by the United States Army Air Forces during the war years. Airlines (Eastern Air Lines and National Airlines) moved to Drew Field from Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Island, which was too small to handle

1700-462: The Best Overall U.S. Airport, while placing it second-best overall in 2009 and 2010. In 2008 Condé Nast Traveler recognized TPA as the second-best airport in the world, just two tenths of a point behind the first-place winner. JD Power and Associates have also given TPA Airport consistently high customer-satisfaction ratings over the years. In November 2011, CNN ranked TPA sixth among ten of

1768-453: The CEO credited with leading Tampa's improvement as a hub, announced plans to retire. At the same time, the airport's board announced it would be undergoing an internal search for a replacement. Tampa International Airport's Landside/Airside terminal was the first of its type in the world. There is a central Landside Terminal where baggage and ticketing functions take place. The Landside Terminal

1836-545: The Douglas DC-4 , DC-6 and Lockheed Constellation prop-liners then coming on line in the mid-1940s. During this period, the airlines were housed in the former Drew AAF Base Operations building. Trans Canada Airlines international flights began in 1950 and Drew Field was renamed Tampa International Airport. The airport's second terminal opened in 1952 near the intersection of Columbus Drive and West Shore Blvd. The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 30 departures

1904-696: The FAA Identifier system described above, though a few conflicts exist. The Federal Civil Aviation Agency of Mexico ( Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil , AFAC) is a designator of airfield codes, each consisting of three letters, used to identify each civil airfield in Mexico. (These characters are chosen with the same methodology as for IATA codes, i.e. taking three letters of the airfield name, for example ZPU for Zacapu Airstrip.) These airfields can be airports, private airstrips, land heliports, boat heliports, and platform helipads. For more substantial airports

1972-847: The Hernando County Commission voted to change the name of the airport to Brooksville–Tampa Regional Airport, part of a county-wide re-branding effort of major facilities and infrastructure. This action remains controversial, with objections from the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority, the governmental entity overseeing Tampa International Airport and three general aviation airports in neighboring Hillsborough County . Following several months legal challenges by both governmental entities in Hernando County and Hillsborough County, mediation in late February/early March 2013 resulted in

2040-584: The IATA codes, they changed when renaming some cities of the former USSR in the 1990s, e.g. Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), which was ЛЕД and became СПТ . As of 2009, about 3,000 code combinations of internal code are in use. Many smaller aerodromes in Russia do not have an ICAO code. Instead, they are assigned an entry in the State and Experimental Aviation Point Location Index , or perhaps two: one civilian, normally beginning with Cyrillic "У" (=Latin "U"),

2108-548: The IATA designators are used, for example TLC for Toluca International Airport, although there are some exceptions, such IATA XAL and AFAC ALA for Alamos National Airport, Sonora. Within Russia (and before 1991 within the Soviet Union), there are airport identifiers (внутренний код - internal code) having three Cyrillic letters. They are used for e.g. ticket sales. Some small airports with scheduled flights have no IATA code, only this code and perhaps an ICAO code. Unlike

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2176-463: The Landside terminal, near the long-term-parking structure; however, relocation was necessary to accommodate more cars and rental car companies as the facilities were at or near capacity. On the southwest end of the Rental Car Center is a canopy and platform that is used for both Hillsborough Area Regional Transit and Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus services. The bus hub is accessible via

2244-656: The U.S. Government for 25 years, or until the end of the "national emergency." During the war, the United States Army Air Forces expanded and modernized the airport. The airfield was used by the Third Air Force and renamed it Drew Army Airfield . The Third Air Force used it as a training center by 120,000 combat air crews, primarily in bomber aircraft for the European and Pacific theaters, and also flew locally based antisubmarine patrols from

2312-413: The United States and its jurisdictions, which do not meet the requirements for identifiers in the three-letter series. In this identifier series, the digit is always in the first position of the three-character combination. Most one-letter, two-digit identifiers are assigned to public-use landing facilities within the United States and its jurisdictions, which do not meet the requirements for identifiers in

2380-531: The United States. There have been rare instances where identifiers have been transplanted to new locations, mainly due to the closure of the original airport. Prominent examples are DEN/KDEN, which migrated from Stapleton International Airport to Denver International Airport in 1996, and AUS/KAUS, which migrated from Austin Mueller Municipal Airport to Austin–Bergstrom International Airport in 1999. Both of these cases occurred because

2448-510: The WMO site explains: The National Weather Service uses several schemes for identifying stations. It typically relies on the ICAO and WMO identifiers, although several weather forecast offices (WFOs) and weather radar sites that have moved away from airports have been given their own codes which do not conflict with existing codes. These typically end in X, such as where Birmingham, Alabama ( BHM ) had its radar site replaced by one south of

2516-677: The airfield until that mission was fully taken over by Naval Aviation assets of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard . There was one mishap in 1943 that killed five fliers. Despite this, Drew Field set a safety record for the Third Air Force in 1945 after 100,000 flying hours had been completed over a period of 10 months without a fatal incident. The aircraft operated included the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress , Douglas C-47 Skytrain , North American AT-6 , North American B-25 Mitchell , and others. After World War II,

2584-781: The airport being renamed again as Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport, a name change acceptable to both the Hernando County Commission and the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority. Since 2000, the airport has been a joint civil-military airfield, home to the Florida Army National Guard 's Army Aviation Support Facility #2 and Company B, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment (B/1-171 AVN) and Detachment 1, Company H, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment (Det 1 H/1-171 AVN), which relocated from their previous facility at Lakeland Linder International Airport , occupying newly constructed facilities adjacent to an existing Florida Army National Guard Armory that previously housed

2652-411: The airport itself and ultimately to their gate. The Tampa Airport was the first airport to use this sort of color-coded wayfinding signage system which was safer for drivers and required many fewer signs than highway engineers had originally budgeted for. The logo, used since the new airport opened in 1971, represents the blue waters of Tampa Bay with a jetliner flying into the downtown Tampa sunset. It

2720-401: The airport opened a Level I FAA contractor operated air traffic control tower, the first time the airport has had an operational control tower since it was Brooksville Army Airfield during World War II. For the 12-month period ending December 15, 2017, the airport had 78,000 aircraft operations, an average of 214 per day: 93% general aviation , 6% military and <1% air taxi . There were at

2788-670: The airport. Airport leaders chose the Landside/Airside design in 1965 after a study. Construction on the new terminal designed by Reynolds, Smith & Hills began in 1968 between the airport's parallel jet-capable runways. Days before its opening, the terminal was dedicated by Florida Governor Reubin Askew and 60,000 people toured the new facility during a two-day open house. The terminal opened for passenger traffic on April 15, 1971 with four airside satellites (Airsides B, C, D, and E). National Airlines Flight 36 from Los Angeles

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2856-464: The airport. Both bases closed during the air travel downturn following the attacks of September 11, 2001 . Alabama-based Pemco World Air Services now occupies the former US Airways hangar performing MRO (maintenance, repair, overhaul) services for the Spirit Airlines and JetBlue A320 fleet. On April 1, 2010 a press release announced that a lease agreement was reached to allow Pemco to lease

2924-587: The assigned identifiers are not always consistent with the current "encoding" rules adopted by the FAA, nor are all the assigned identifiers distinct between the United States and Canada. The coding system has evolved over time, and to ensure safety and reduce ambiguity, many "legacy" codes have remained intact, even though they violate the currently ordered rules. For this reason, the FAA regularly publishes detailed listings of all codes it administers In general, three-letter identifiers are assigned as radio call signs to aeronautical navigation aids; to airports with

2992-675: The city (BMX), or where the Knoxville ( TYS ) office was moved to nearby Morristown, Tennessee (MRX). Others have changed such that Miami, Florida is now MFL instead of MIA , and Dallas/Fort Worth (formerly DFW ) is now FWD. Climatological applications use the WBAN (Weather Bureau Army Navy) system, which is a five-digit numeric code for identifying weather stations under its jurisdiction. Recently it began using four-letter-plus-one-digit identifiers for specialized weather requirements such as hydrometeorological stations. These are used by

3060-493: The demise of Eastern Air Lines. Airside A was subsequently built and opened in 1995. In 1996, Airsides C and D were temporarily closed and remodeled, and the interiors of both satellites were refurbished. During this time, all the airlines from both facilities were housed in Airside E. Upon completion of the renovations, the airlines returned to their original locations, and Airside E was permanently closed. Airside E sat dormant for

3128-600: The first two, middle, or last two positions of the four-character code. The use of the FAA identifier system in meteorology ended in 1996 when airways reporting code was replaced by METAR code . The METAR code is dependent wholly on the ICAO identifier system. Since January 2019, the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (ANAC) issues a six-digit designator called Aerodrome Identification Code ( Portuguese : Código de Identificação de Aeródromo , CIAD) for each aerodrome. The first two digits are

3196-472: The inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg , to Tampa using a Benoist Flying Boat —the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using a heavier-than-air airplane. In 1928, the city completed the 160-acre (65 ha) Drew Field six miles (9.7 km) west of Downtown Tampa. It was named for local developer John H. Drew, who formerly owned

3264-402: The land on which the airport stood. The more popular Peter O. Knight Airport was opened on Davis Islands near Downtown Tampa in 1935, where both Eastern and National Airlines operated until 1946. The United States Army Air Corps began negotiating for the use of Drew Field in 1939 during the buildup of military forces prior to World War II. In 1940, the City of Tampa leased Drew Field to

3332-527: The letters related to the State of the Federation where the aerodrome is located and the next four digits are numbers assigned by ANAC. In the case of military aerodromes, the first number is 9. Transport Canada assigns two-, three-, and four-character identifiers, including three-letter identifiers beginning with letters Y and Z, for its areas of jurisdiction. These identifiers are designed to mesh with

3400-519: The magazine were involved in the survey. Palm Beach International Airport , another Florida airport, made the list (#3) as well. In August 2022, a 21-foot flamingo sculpture named HOME nicknamed " Phoebe ", was installed and opened in Tampa International Airport's main terminal. The design from American artist Matthew Mazzotta was chosen out of 734 art proposals submitted from around the world. In February 2024, Joe Lopano,

3468-722: The nearest town, or the name of the stream, or a combination of the two; and the same names may be rearranged into different mnemonics for different nearby locations. For example, VING1 is the gauge at Vinings, Georgia , and is differentiated from other stations along the Chattahoochee River (such as CHAG1 in nearby Oakdale) which are also at the Atlanta city limit like Vinings is, and from other streams in Atlanta such as Peachtree Creek (AANG1). The United States Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA), acting on behalf of all

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3536-620: The need for replacement personnel by Eighth and Fifteenth Air Force was ended. In late 1945, the field was reported to the War Assets Administration (WAA) as being in surplus and between April 1946 and June 1947, the WAA sold or moved the on-site equipment to military locations where it could be better utilized. The land and left-over facilities were sold to the city of Brooksville by a General Services Administration (GSA) quitclaim deeds which contained clauses that limited

3604-507: The operational unit. Under Third Air Force, Brooksville became a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber replacement training base. Bomber crews assigned to the main base used the airfield as an overflow training base and as an emergency landing airfield, if necessary. With the imminent end of the war in Europe, Brooksville AAF was notified on April 1, 1945, of its pending inactivation on June 30. With B-17s being used almost exclusively in Europe,

3672-450: The original design in 1968. Today it houses the original facilities with the addition of offices, rental car counters, badging and a receptionist desk. The police department/lost and found has a lobby on level two (ticketing level) for walk-in lost & found requests. On February 14, 2018, a new 2.6-million-square-foot Rental Car Center with space for 5,300 vehicles, was opened to the public. The new combined service and maintenance facility

3740-1169: The original locations were closed. Occasionally a code will be discontinued entirely, with no successor. Sometimes this is a small airport that has closed, such as Stone Mountain Airport , whose identifier 00A is now used for an R/C heliport in Bensalem, Pennsylvania . In another case, the identifiers for Idlewild Airport in New York were changed to JFK and KJFK when it was renamed after John F. Kennedy , and its original IDL and KIDL were later reused for Indianola Municipal Airport in Indianola, Mississippi . Transplanted identifiers tend to be poorly documented , and can cause problems in data systems and software which process historical records and in research and legal work. A similar problem also exists for broadcast callsigns . Tampa International Airport Tampa International Airport ( IATA : TPA , ICAO : KTPA , FAA LID : TPA ) (known as Drew Field Municipal Airport until 1952)

3808-402: The other for "state" or military operations, almost always the same except that the first character is now a Cyrillic "Ь" (=Latin "X"). These codes are given in the official document which has separate columns for national codes (civilian), national codes (military & state), and some also have "international" codes; only the latter correspond to ICAO codes. For example, Magadan Sokol Airport

3876-491: The property to be used for a public airport only. Some of these clauses have since been modified by the Federal Aviation Administration . Within a few years, the city of Brooksville transferred the property to Hernando County, which remains the current owner. Two small sections of the land have been sold to private interests and the rest is currently used by the county for an airport, 155-acre (0.63 km) industrial park, prison, land rentals, and tree farming. In October 2012,

3944-508: The region; for example, K for the contiguous United States, C for Canada, E for northern Europe, R for the Asian Far East, and Y for Australia. Examples of ICAO location indicators are RPLL for Manila Ninoy Aquino Airport and KCEF for Westover Joint Air Reserve Base . The International Air Transport Association uses sets of three-letter IATA identifiers which are used for airline operations, baggage routing, and ticketing. There

4012-542: The second hangar formerly used by Delta Air Lines, where they perform Boeing 737 cargo conversions and modifications. Phase I of the economy parking garage was completed in November 2005. Phase II of the economy garage opened ahead of schedule in November 2005, bringing a total of 5,600 parking spaces. On March 7, 2011, federal officials gave TPA the green light to begin charter flights to Cuba as an official entry/exit point. In 2007 and 2008, Zagat Survey ranked TPA

4080-462: The service building went into operation as well. It housed the first communications center, police dispatch, employee cafeteria and maintenance locker rooms. The building is located across from the Red Baggage and Ticketing levels. It was primarily intended to house mechanical equipment such as the chiller plant and electrical transformers. Since then it has been expanded to two levels which was in

4148-454: The three-letter series. Some of these identifiers are also assigned to aviation weather reporting stations. Two-letter, two-digit identifiers are assigned to private-use landing facilities in the United States and its jurisdictions which do not meet the requirements for three-character assignments. They are keyed by the two-letter Post Office or supplemental abbreviation of the state with which they are associated. The two-letter code appears in

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4216-631: The time 181 aircraft based at this airport: 120 single engine, 24 multi-engine, 5 helicopters , 3 gliders, 11 military, 2 ultralights , and 16 jet aircraft. Hernando County Airport was opened in November 1942 by the United States Army Air Forces . Known as Brooksville Army Airfield , it was used as part of the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics (AAFSAT) tactical combat simulation school in Central and Northern Florida . Headquartered at Orlando Army Air Base , AAFSAT's mission

4284-638: The world's most loved airports, being the only one on the list from the US. In 2016, it was named one of the Top 3 airports in the country by Condé Nast . In 2020 Airports Council International named TPA the best airport in North America for its size. In 2024, Travel+Leisure ranked TPA the eighth best domestic airport in the US. Criteria for the rankings were based on access, check-in, restaurants,shopping, and design, and rated from excellent to poor. Readers of

4352-441: Was due to the fact that Orlando International Airport (known then as Orlando Jetport at McCoy) was much smaller at the time with a more limited capacity. Shawnee Airlines offered connecting flights from Tampa to the now-defunct Walt Disney World Airport in the 1970s. Orlando International opened its current terminal in 1981 using the same well-received landside/airside layout as Tampa International Airport. On July 15, 1972,

4420-483: Was followed by the L-1011 Lockheed Tristar a year later by Eastern Air Lines. National Airlines began trans Atlantic DC-10 service to Amsterdam and Paris in 1977. During the following decades, the airport was expanded to handle more traffic and additional airlines. In 1987, the terminal received its first major expansion with the opening of Airside F. Airside B closed permanently in 1991 following

4488-771: Was retired from Army National Guard service in 2014. Location identifier A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport , navigation aid , or weather station , and is used for staffed air traffic control facilities in air traffic control , telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services. The International Civil Aviation Organization establishes sets of four-letter location indicators which are published in ICAO Publication 7910 . These are used by air traffic control agencies to identify airports and by weather agencies to produce METAR weather reports. The first letter indicates

4556-410: Was the first to arrive at the terminal; after touching down at 05:26 A.M., the jet taxied to Airside E. The graphics and signage system designed by Jane Davis Doggett used red for one group of airlines and blue for another. The red/blue color scheme began on the highway outside the airport and helped guide drivers to the proper dropoff areas for each airline, then continued to guide passengers through

4624-432: Was to develop tactics and techniques of aerial warfare and to establish technical and tactical proficiency requirements for combat units to effectively engage and defeat enemy air forces. This was done with a wide variety of aircraft, including heavy strategic bombers, tactical fighters, medium and light bombers, reconnaissance aircraft and dive bombers, based at different airfields of the school. AAFSAT used Brooksville as

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