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  2. Naval Air Station Key West - Wikipedia

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    Naval Air Station Key West (IATA: NQX[2], ICAO: KNQX, FAA LID: NQX), is a naval air station and military airport located on Boca Chica Key, four miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Key West, Florida, United States. [3] NAS Key West is an air-to-air combat training facility for fighter aircraft of all military services, with ...

  3. Key West Shipwreck Museum - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Key West Shipwreck Museum. The Key West Shipwreck Museum (formerly Shipwreck Historeum) is located in Key West, Florida, United States. It combines actors, films and actual artifacts to tell the story of 400 years of shipwreck salvage in the Florida Keys. The museum itself is a re-creation of a 19th-century warehouse built by wrecker ...

  4. List of shipwrecks of Florida - Wikipedia

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    A Spanish ship that sank in a hurricane off Key West. A Fletcher -class destroyer that was sunk as a target in 420 fsw off Key West. A patrol boat that was wrecked off Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. A Thomaston -class dock landing ship that was sunk as an artificial reef off Florida Keys.

  5. ValuJet Flight 592 - Wikipedia

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    ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta.On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment probably caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo.

  6. Florida World War II Army Airfields - Wikipedia

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    1940-1944. In use. 1940-present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Florida for antisubmarine defense in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters, attack planes, and light and medium bombers. After early 1944, heavy bomber crews ...

  7. Aircraft recycling - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft recycling is the process of scrapping and disassembling retired aircraft, and re-purposing their parts as spare parts or scrap. Airplanes are made of around 800 to 1000 parts that can be recycled, with the majority of them made from metal alloys and composite materials. [1][2] The two most common metal alloys are aluminum and titanium ...