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A 500-pound "live bomb" explodes on a target at the U.S. Navy Pinecastle Range Complex in the Ocala National Forest, north of Altoona.
Pinecastle or Pine Castle may refer to: . McCoy Air Force Base (previously Pinecastle Army Airfield), a former United States Air Force base; Naval Air Station DeLand (previously Pinecastle Electronic Warfare and Bombing Range), a United States Naval Air Station located in DeLand, Florida from 1942–1946
A Grumman F-14 Tomcat on a platform with the Chief Master at Arms house in the background. The house is now the location of the DeLand Naval Air Station Museum. Nine Mile Point on Lake George was also under NAS DeLand's control and was used as a practice bombing site with a Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina seaplane stationed nearby in the event of an aircraft mishap on the lake.
McCoy Air Force Base was named for Colonel Michael Norman Wright McCoy (1905–1957) on 7 May 1958. [1] Seven months earlier on 9 October 1957, McCoy was killed 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.
Florida: Eglin Air Force Base. Total acres: 449,421 Branch: Air Force. With 188 bases, Florida is a major military-support state. ... known informally as the Boardman Bombing Range, is the biggest ...
Nine Mile Point on Lake George was also under NAS DeLand's control, and was used as a practice bombing site with a Navy PBY Catalina seaplane stationed nearby in the event of an aircraft mishap on the lake. This Lake George site is still used today as part of the Navy's Pinecastle Electronic Warfare and Bombing Range managed by NAS Jacksonville ...
All three are considered relics of an era when parts of the area were used as bombing ranges, historians say. ... The 250-pound bombs are near Two Georges Marina in Shalimar, Florida, and the ...
The range is affiliated with the U.S. Navy's Pinecastle Bombing Range located in the Ocala National Forest just west of Lake George. The bombing ranges date back to World War II , when the Navy built bomb targets in Lake George and nearby Crescent Lake, and stationed personnel in the area to maintain the targets and perform search and rescue ...