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Florida State Fair in 2013. In 1904, the South Florida Fair Association was formed and plans for a new exhibition were proposed. The fair was founded as the South Florida Fair in downtown Tampa and renamed the Mid-Winter Festival a few years later. The name finally changed to the present Florida State Fair in 1915. [7]
Neptune's BAe 146 aircraft were the first aircraft that met the Forest Service criteria to qualify as next-generation air tankers, which require the aircraft to be turbine or turbofan powered, be able to cruise at 300 knots (345 mph), and have a retardant capacity of at least 3,000 US gallons (11,000 L; 2,500 imp gal). Neptune chose the BAe 146 ...
As the new air tankers were delivered and placed in service, the original S-2As were retired. In 2007, CAL FIRE contracted with 10 Tanker Air Carrier for a three year exclusive use contract utilizing a wide body McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 aerial firefighting jet air tanker known as Tanker 910, at a cost of $5 million per year.
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The South Florida Bulls men's basketball team used Expo Hall as their main home arena for the 1979–80 season before the on-campus USF Sun Dome opened. The Tampa Bay Rowdies of the defunct North American Soccer League used Expo Hall for 8 of their 16 home games during the 1983–84 indoor season .
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009. [4] [5]
The Florida State Fairgrounds in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida, hosts the annual Florida State Fair and various other events. [1] Covering 355 acres (1.44 km 2 ), it features a variety of buildings.
The United States Forest Service, Sierra National Forest and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) jointly operate the Fresno Air Attack Base at the airport for fighting forest fires with aerial tankers. The air attack base has a command center and four loading pits where fire retardant is pumped into aircraft ...