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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 ...
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 ).
During the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom, the fort was the scene of the American victory at the Battle of Pensacola (1814).This was fought between American forces commanded by General Andrew Jackson as well as some Native American allies, and the allied forces of Great Britain, Spanish Florida, and the Creek nation.
Mysterious tar balls washed up on several Florida beaches, forcing closures and triggering an investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard. Fort Lauderdale’s shoreline was among the most impacted ...
An aerial view shows destruction at the Spanish Lakes country club in Fort Pierce, Florida, in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. / Credit: JOHN FALCHETTO/AFP via Getty Images.
A 10-foot-deep swimming lake at one time, it was turned into the deepest lake in Louisiana thanks to a salt mining accident. Landsat Island: A lonesome island with a frankly humorous tale. List of gaps in Interstate Highways: Traffic-lighted intersections, drawbridges, and other oddities in the Interstate Highway System which violate the standards.
The tornadoes and Spanish Lakes tragedy reminded me of Tropical Storm Gordon, which headed this way from north of Fort Myers Nov. 15, 1994, according to the weather service. One of two tornadoes ...
The Presidio Santa María de Galve, founded in 1698 by Spanish colonists, was the first European settlement of Pensacola, Florida after that of Tristan de Luna in 1559–1561. It was in the area of Fort Barrancas at modern-day Naval Air Station Pensacola, in northwestern Florida. The presidio included Fort San Carlos de Austria and an adjacent ...