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The airport sits on 13,555 acres (5,486 ha, 21.2 sq.mi.) [5] [6] of land just southeast of Fort Myers, making it the third-largest airport in the United States in terms of land size (after Denver and Dallas/Fort Worth). 6,000 acres of the land has been conserved as swamp lands and set aside for environmental mitigation. [7]
Page Field (IATA: FMY, ICAO: KFMY, FAA LID: FMY) is a public airport located in Fort Myers, in Lee County, Florida, United States. It is owned by the Lee County Port Authority; [ 1 ] the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a reliever airport .
When the line and branches were complete, the Seaboard Air Line designated them as the Fort Myers Subdivision, LaBelle Subdivision, and Punta Rassa Subdivision. [45] After opening, the Seaboard's Orange Blossom Special and West Coast Limited provided daily passenger service down the west coast. [ 46 ]
At first, the USAAF called the airport Fort Myers Army Air Base; eventually the field would be named Page Field to honor Captain Richard Page, a World War I aviator killed in a seaplane accident near Everglades, Florida on March 3, 1920. Captain Page was the first person from Florida to join the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps.
The arrival of B&O and other railroads made the port a central transshipment point between inland points and the rest of the world. [11] By the 1840s, the Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") was providing overnight steamship service down the Chesapeake Bay. [12] After the Civil War, coffee ships were designed here for trade with Brazil.
Daniels Road was expanded to a four-lane divided road with frontage roads from I-75 east to Chamberlin Parkway. Chamberlin Parkway would be the main entrance to the airport's original terminal when it opened in 1983. [14] At this time, Daniels Road continued east of Chamberlin Parkway as a two-lane road providing access to the airport's fuel ...
The CSX Cumberland Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and West Virginia.The line runs from Brunswick, Maryland, west to Cumberland, Maryland, [1] along the old Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (B&O) main line.
Maryland Airport covers an area of 314 acres (127 ha) which contains one operational runway: 2/20 with a 3,740 x 75 ft asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending September 13, 2023, the airport had 22,050 aircraft operations, an average of 60 per day: 98% general aviation , 2% military and <1% air taxi .