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Marco Island Airport covers an area of 140 acres (57 ha) and contains one asphalt runway (17/35): 5,000 ft × 100 ft (1,524 m × 30 m). [1]The Airport underwent a $15 million terminal redevelopment initiative to construct a new, two-story terminal building as the old terminal was located within an unsafe distance from Runway 17/35.
Construction of the airport began in 1980 and it opened on schedule on May 14, 1983. Upon opening, the airport was named Southwest Florida Regional Airport (the airport code RSW is short for "Regional South-West"). [9] Originally, the airport included a single 8400-ft runway and a passenger terminal with 14 gates on two concourses.
Commercial service – primary airports: Daytona Beach: DAB: DAB KDAB Daytona Beach International Airport: P-N 275,166 Fort Lauderdale: FLL: FLL KFLL Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: P-L 13,598,994 Fort Myers: RSW: RSW KRSW Southwest Florida International Airport: P-M 5,080,805 Fort Walton Beach: VPS: VPS KVPS
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Marco Island in the 1960s. Marco Island's history can be traced to 500 CE, when the Calusa people inhabited the island as well as the rest of southwest Florida.A number of Calusa artifacts were discovered on Key Marco (an island then adjacent, and since attached, to Marco Island) in 1896 by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing as part of the Pepper-Hearst Expedition.
The T-37 is near the former air base main gate, now the airport entrance, and The Museum Room in the airport's main terminal commemorates the airport's military heritage. From 1960 through 1967 the City of Bartow again managed the airport and the aviation facilities were again leased to a fixed-base operator.
Orlando International in Orlando, Florida – 31.06% of flights delayed, 1.52% canceled. Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall in Baltimore – 31.26% of flights delayed, 1.22% canceled
In 1942 the U.S. Navy notified Vero Beach that it had selected its airport for a naval air station and purchased 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) surrounding the airport.The base was commissioned as Naval Air Station Vero Beach in 1942 and initially functioned as an operational training unit training for Naval Aviators beginning in February 1943 with the SB2A Buccaneer aircraft.