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Locally known as Airport Boulevard, State Road 750 (SR 750) is a 3.3-mile-long (5.3 km) spur from Ninth Avenue in Pensacola to the entrance of Pensacola International Airport. The western terminus is an intersection with Pensacola Boulevard ( U.S. Route 29 or US 29 and SR 95 ).
Pensacola International Airport [3] (IATA: PNS, ICAO: KPNS, FAA LID: PNS), formerly Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport and Pensacola Regional Airport (Hagler Field), and temporarily branded Pensacola Intergalactic Airport each February in recognition of the local Pensacon convention, is a public use airport three nautical miles (6 km; 3 mi) northeast of the central business district of ...
The first lighthouse built by the U.S. on the Florida coast. Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (IATA: NPA, ICAO: KNPA, FAA LID: NPA) (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a ...
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The U.S. Navy leased what was then known as "Felton's Farm Field" for use as an outlying field of NAS Pensacola from 1933 and it purchased the 866.62 acres (3.5071 km 2) site on 16 August 1939. [5] The base opened for operations on 26 August 1940 [ 6 ] and is named after Lieutenant (junior grade) Richard C. Saufley , USN, Naval Aviator No. 14.
Pensacola was first settled by the Spanish Empire in 1559, antedating the establishment of St. Augustine by six years, [8] but was abandoned due to a significant hurricane and not re-established until 1698. [9] Pensacola is a seaport on Pensacola Bay, which is protected by the barrier island of Santa Rosa and connects to the Gulf of Mexico.
Space Coast Regional Airport (IATA: TIX, ICAO: KTIX, FAA LID: TIX) is in Titusville, Florida, United States, on Columbia Boulevard (State Road 405) and Washington Avenue in Brevard County. Formerly known, and still colloquially referred to, as Ti-Co (Titusville-Cocoa) Airport, it is the nearest commercial airport to the Kennedy Space Center.
The road becomes a four-lane divided highway just before the intersection with Old Barrancas Avenue, then suddenly becomes a six-lane highway wide as it approaches a bridge over Bayou Chico, where it enters the city of Pensacola. SR 292 makes a sharp left turn onto Pace Avenue to the north, while Barrancas Avenue continues to the northeast.