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Peter O. Knight Airport (IATA: TPF, ICAO: KTPF, FAA LID: TPF) is an airport on Davis Islands, five minutes (3 NM or 5.6 km or 3.5 mi) from downtown Tampa, Florida.Built as a Works Progress Administration project, it was Tampa's main airport from 1935 to 1945, and is still used by general aviation operators today because of its proximity to the central city.
2024. June 2 – During an airshow at Beja Airbase in Beja, Portugal, two Yakovlev Yak-52 aircraft, part of the YAKSTARS aerobatic display team, were involved in a mid-air crash. The incident resulted in the death of one Spanish pilot, Manuel Rey Cordeiro, known as "Coco", and injuries to a Portuguese pilot, who was transported to Beja's Hospital.
The first RAF flight cadets began training in the United States in June 1941. The Army Air Corps (later Army Air Forces) maintained a small liaison detachment at each of these schools, however the RAF provided a cadre of officers for military supervision and training, while flight training was conducted by contract flying schools.
The pilots of Southwest Flight 4013 from Chicago's Midway Airport said in interviews with investigators that they had programmed the Boeing 737 flight management system for the Branson airport ...
Peter O. Knight. Peter Oliphant Knight (December 16, 1865 – November 26, 1946) was a lawyer in Tampa, Florida. He is the namesake of Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Islands, and of the Holland & Knight law firm. Knight was born in Pennsylvania. His father died when he was nine years old. [1]
Tampa Bay is the birthplace of commercial airline service, when pioneer aviator Tony Jannus flew the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg, to Tampa using a Benoist Flying Boat—the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using a heavier-than-air airplane.
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010).Read our methodology here.. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.
United States. Website. spartan.edu. Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology ( Spartan) is a private for-profit aviation college in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was originally established to provide pilot and technicians for Spartan Aircraft Company but outlived its parent company and continues to train pilots and mechanics into the 21st Century.