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Albert Whitted Airport. / 27.76500°N 82.62694°W / 27.76500; -82.62694. Albert Whitted Airport ( IATA: SPG, ICAO: KSPG, FAA LID: SPG) is a public airport in St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States. [1] It is on the west edge of Tampa Bay, just southeast of downtown St. Petersburg and east of the University of South ...
On 12 October 1928, St. Petersburg's city's airport, known until then as Cook-Springstead tracks, was renamed Albert Whitted Airport. Soon after its opening, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company chose Albert Whitted Airport as a location for one of its blimps, and the St. Petersburg City Council constructed a blimp hangar at the site at a cost of $33,062.
The race is held annually in the spring, with the exception of 2020, when it was postponed until October due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race takes place on a temporary course, utilizing downtown streets, and one runway of Albert Whitted Airport. The event dates back to 1985, with IndyCars first competing in 2003.
History. The airport is on the west shoreline of Tampa Bay, six miles (10 km) north of St. Petersburg, Florida (the "birthplace of commercial air transportation"). Barely a decade after the pioneer flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first tickets for airline travel were sold by the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line of Tony Jannus to fare-paying passengers.
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HC-130H Hercules. United States Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater (CGAS Clearwater) is the United States Coast Guard 's largest air station. [2] It is located at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in Clearwater, Florida and is home to nearly 700 USCG aviation and support personnel. As of March 2021, there are ten MH-60T ...
National Airlines was founded by George T. Baker (1899–1963) in 1934. Its headquarters were in St. Petersburg, Florida and it was based at the city's Albert Whitted Airport. [6] On October 15 of that year, revenue flights were launched, transporting passengers and mail from St. Petersburg to a few destinations within Florida using a fleet of ...
Tony Jannus. Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as Tony Jannus (July 22, 1889 – October 12, 1916), was an early American pilot whose aerial exploits were widely publicized in aviation's pre-World War I period. He flew the first airplane from which a parachute jump was made, in 1912. [1] Jannus was also the first airline pilot ...