Aviation in Florida

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The first aeronautical event in Florida was presented on January 28, 1878, when a balloon flew over Jacksonville.^[1] Florida has since hosted four major aviation events.^[2]

Events

• January 1914 -
  St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line
  becomes the first airline in the world using heavier-than-air vehicles.
• December 1916 - Navy takes delivery of its first airship, the DN-1
• April 1, 1926 -
  Commercial Air Mail (CAM) Service.^[3]
• Sun 'n Fun air show started in 1974.

Aircraft manufacturers

• Comp Air - Merritt Island, Florida
• Vero Beach
• Progressive Aerodyne - Tavares, Florida

Aerospace

• Florida Institute of Technology
• Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University

Airports

• List of airports in Florida

Commercial service

• Air Florida based in Florida from 1971 to 1984
• Red Arrow Flying Service - Chalk's Ocean Airways - Chalk's International Airlines founded in Miami in 1917.^[4]
• National Airlines founded in 1934.^[5]

Organizations

• Florida Aviation Association - Founded in 1936 in Orlando^[6]
• Space Florida

Government and military

• Florida Department of Transportation ^[7]
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bases its aircraft at the Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland.

^[8]

Museums

• Air Force Armament Museum, Valparaiso, Florida
• Air Force Space and Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
• Airport Museum (Melbourne, Florida)
• DeLand Naval Air Station Museum, DeLand, Florida
• Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, Florida
• Florida Air Museum, Lakeland, Florida
• Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island, Florida
• Kissimmee Air Museum
• National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida
• United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, south of Titusville, Florida
• US Space Walk of Fame, Titusville, Florida
• Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum, Titusville, Florida
• Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum, Keystone Heights, Florida
• Tamiami Airport, Miami