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The SunRail commuter rail line is considering a 5.5-mile (8.9 km) extension to the airport terminal. The extension would travel 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the existing SunRail line along an Orlando Utilities Commission rail spur, which runs along the southern boundary of the airport's property. The route is used exclusively by coal trains to serve ...
I-4 – Orlando, Daytona Beach: Exit 92 on I-4 (SR 400) 8.268: 13.306: CR 427 south (Maitland Avenue) ... Orlando International Airport: Continues south as Jeff Fuqua ...
Noles, Randy (September 27, 2022). "Flights of Fancy at New Terminal".Winter Park Magazine – via winterparkmag.com. During their respective terms as leaders of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, Carson Good (left), current chair, and Jeff Fuqua (right), past chair, pushed through the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a financial meltdown and a global pandemic to keep the airport healthy and ...
On July 14, 2009, 100 patients were moved from Florida Hospital Ormond Memorial in Ormond Beach to Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The 12-story, 718,000-square-foot Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center cost $270 million to build, it opened with 277 beds and 32 of them being for a birthcare center.
Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO, ICAO: KMCO, FAA LID: MCO) [6] is the primary international airport located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Downtown Orlando, Florida. In 2021, it had 19,618,838 enplanements , making it the busiest airport in the state and seventh busiest airport in the United States .
McCoy Air Force Base was named for Colonel Michael Norman Wright McCoy (born 1905) on 7 May 1958. Col McCoy was killed on 9 October 1957 in the crash of a B-47 Stratojet (DB-47B-35-BW), AF Serial No. 51-2177, of the 447th Bombardment Squadron, 321st Bombardment Wing, which suffered wing failure northwest of downtown Orlando, Florida while taking part in a practice demonstration during the ...
The first name it was given was Sholtz Field, after the then Governor of Florida, who was from Daytona Beach. The airport began with two gravel runways, one 1,800 feet (550 m) long and one 2,100 feet (640 m). Before long the name became Daytona Beach Municipal Airport. [3] Eastern Air Lines began passenger service, flying Kingbirds and Condors ...
The airport is still the "minor" airport of Orlando, Florida, as Orlando International Airport is the airport for commercial airline flights, drawing more passengers every year. The airport has been used for special air industry events and showcases including the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention which was held there in ...