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Albert Whitted Airport began construction in October 1928 and opened in the summer of 1929. [6] The airport is named for Lieutenant James Albert Whitted, USNR, a St. Petersburg native. [7] He was one of the U.S. Navy's first 250 Naval Aviators, commissioned at age 24 just as the United States entered World War I in 1917. [8]
Lt. James Albert Whitted (born February 14, 1893 – August 19, 1923), was an American aviator from St. Petersburg, Florida. During his career, Whitted was an engineer, an instructor at the Naval flight school and ran a commercial air service business. Whitted was killed in a plane crash near Pensacola, Florida in 1923.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Something new may soon be landing at St. Pete’s Albert Whitted Airport. "The first of these aircrafts are supposed to be certified for flight as early as next year, so you ...
Passengers. 2,494,952. Sources: FAA, [ 1 ] airport website [ 2 ] St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport (IATA: PIE[ 3 ], ICAO: KPIE, FAA LID: PIE) is a public/military airport in Pinellas County, Florida, United States, serving the Tampa Bay Area. [ 1 ] It is right on the northeast municipal boundary of Pinellas Park, 9 miles (14 km) north ...
ST. PETERSBURG — Mayor Ken Welch, whose social media posts have sparked speculation about the future of Albert Whitted Airport, including its potential as a location for a Tampa Bay Rays ...
Pan Am Flight 7 was a westbound round-the-world flight operated by Pan American World Airways.On November 8, 1957, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29 serving the flight, named Clipper Romance of the Skies, crashed in the Pacific Ocean en route to Honolulu International Airport from San Francisco.
August 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM. Odessa Fire Rescue responded with multiple units to an aircraft incident in the 6800 block of Alderfer Ave. in Odessa, Texas, on Tuesday. Two people were killed and ...
Late in the evening of 10 January news of the incident reached Berlin via press reports about a crashed German plane. In the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the German armed forces high command, it caused general consternation, as it was soon deduced that Reinberger must have had papers revealing parts of the attack plan with him.