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The first lighthouse built by the U.S. on the Florida coast. Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (IATA: NPA, ICAO: KNPA, FAA LID: NPA) (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a ...
Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station (NASP Corry Station), Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC), formerly known as Naval Technical Training Center Corry Station in Florida, United States, is a sub-installation of nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola that hosts several of the Navy's Information Warfare Corps training commands.
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 road serves as a connector between Mobile Highway (US 90/SR 10) and Interstate 10 (SR 8) in the Pensacola metropolitan area. The road also extends into the northern Pensacola suburbs, where it ends at an intersection with Nine Mile Road (Alt US 90/SR 10). The road is also the main truck route to Pensacola Naval Air Station.
State Road 295 (SR 295) is a major highway in the Pensacola metropolitan area.Locally, SR 295 is also called Navy Boulevard, New Warrington Road, and Fairfield Drive. The southern terminus is at the entrance to Pensacola Naval Air Station, and the northern terminus is at an intersection with Fairfield Drive, Ninth Avenue and 12th Avenue in the city of Pensacola.
This is a list of airfields operated by the United States Navy which are located within the United States and abroad. The US Navy's main airfields are designated as Naval Air Stations or Naval Air Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF) having a support role.
Saufley was killed 9 June 1916 in the crash of a Curtiss Model E hydroplane, AH-8, off of Pensacola during an attempted long-endurance flight. [7] The installation was originally commissioned in 1943 as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Saufley Field and was redesignated Naval Air Station Saufley Field in 1968.
State Road 173 (SR 173), locally known as Blue Angel Parkway, is a major thoroughfare in the Pensacola, Florida metropolitan area. SR 173 has its southern terminus at the western entrance to NAS Pensacola, and runs south–north through West Pensacola to its northern terminus at State Road 297 (Pine Forest Road).