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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]
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 ...
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.
On September 30, 2015, the pilot of a Piper PA-30, registered to Jet Aircraft Management, crashed and died while practicing takeoffs and landings. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] On January 4, 2016, a Beechcraft 200 Super King Air (N275X) of Skyway Aircraft Inc. was being flown from Albert Whitted to PIE for flap examination when the pilot failed to configure ...
The plane clipped power lines and then crashed "mostly in the alleyway," Griffis said at a news conference. The Cessna Citation business jet crashed around 7:40 a.m. local time, the Federal ...
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 ...
On July 26, 2024, a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine aircraft with seven people on board crashed near the Wyoming – Montana border, just north of Gillette, Wyoming, United States. All seven on board were killed upon impact. Three members of the gospel quartet The Nelons — vocalist Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason, and her daughter Amber ...
A pilot in his mid-20s remains in critical condition after the crash of a single-engine plane in Ventura County on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The man was being airlifted to a burn center in ...