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1 Winter 2021 As a Business Owner Or Developer, You Want the Perfect News from the Florida Department of Transportation Aviation Office www.fdot.gov/aviation Winter 2021 s a business owner or developer, you want the Airport passive land to an airport industrial designation, which perfect combination of opportunity, convenience, can easily accommodate relocating businesses of any size and is and location. Plant your roots at Kissimmee Gateway complemented by the innovative Aerospace Advancement Airport, one of the premier general aviation airports Initiative. This aggressive economic incentive program was Ain the United States, where 160 acres of prime aviation and designed to spur investments at the airport.” industrial property are ready for long-term lease in a booming The airport plays a key role in the region’s tourism industry. aerospace corridor. Kissimmee Gateway Airport is the airport According to Experience Kissimmee, over 8.6 million people visit of choice for thousands of business and corporate jet travelers the area each year resulting in an annual economic impact of who come to the Orlando area $6.6 billion. “Tourism is the largest each year for events at the industry in Osceola County and Orlando/Orange County Kissimmee Airport is a vital part of it,” Convention Center; to visit said D.T. Minich, President and CEO of Central Florida’s world-famous Experience Kissimmee. “The airport attractions like SeaWorld and provides business and leisure travelers Epcot; and to do business with a direct connection to Kissimmee and major corporations like we are thrilled to join the community Lockheed Martin, Tupperware in celebrating this amazing milestone.” Brands, Darden Restaurants, and Siemens to name just a few. The airport offers Innovative Incentives for Relocating innovative incentive programs and Expanding Businesses and other amenities for Few small cities can match businesses interested in Kissimmee’s pro-business attitude, relocating to Kissimmee. especially when it comes to aviation. Photo Courtesy: Kissimmee Gateway Airport In early 2018, the City created the Driving the Regional Economy, Aerospace Advancement Initiative Supporting Tourism and Creating New Jobs (AAI), to assist with growing aerospace high value and high wage jobs, especially at or around the Kissimmee Gateway The airport continues to drive the regional economy with an Airport. To encourage and promote additional growth at the annual economic impact of over $190 million. According to Kissimmee Gateway Airport, the City of Kissimmee’s Economic Enterprise Florida, the state’s economic development Development Office announced the launch of the Aerospace organization, Florida is a leading aerospace location and a top Advancement Initiative (AAI). This incentives package for state for aerospace manufacturing. Over 470 aerospace aerospace businesses was unveiled at Kissimmee Gateway companies are in the state serving the needs of sectors from Airport in 2018. These initiatives position the Kissimmee aircraft parts and assembly, to intelligence, surveillance and Gateway Airport in a more competitive manner, encouraging reconnaissance, and missiles. Enterprise Florida reports that investors to locate at or near the Airport. All the growing nearly 100,000 Floridians work in Florida’s aviation and aviation academic tracks located at Kissimmee Gateway Airport aerospace industries with large numbers of rocket scientists, are resulting in the airport becoming the premier aviation machinists, pilots, engineers, and other flexible, highly-skilled workforce hub in the region. These new aerospace economic workers. “It’s exciting to see how much the airport has grown development incentives, along with the growing local aviation over the last 80 years, particularly when it comes to serving Michael McDougall is the Aviation workforce, and its strategicCommunications location Manager within at theFlorida, FDOT make the aerospace industry,” said Belinda Kirkegard, the City of Kissimmee Gateway AirportAviation an Office. incredible He can besite reached for aerospace at Kissimmee’s Director of Economic Development. “Our City industries. For more information, visit www.flykissimmee.com/ Commission recently rezoned over 160 acres of previous develop. 1 Outstanding Aviation and Aerospace Celebrating 80 Years of Flight Education In 2020, Kissimmee Gateway Airport One of the unsung strengths of our announced the kickoff of its 80th airport is our cluster of aviation career Anniversary celebration, showcasing training schools on the airport. In the key role the airport has played in addition to our two major flight schools, transforming aviation and aerospace we have eight training and educational in the Central Florida region over the centers, an avionics technician training last eight decades. The airport got its program, and an aircraft Airframe and start when the Army Air Corps Powerplant school in full operation. requested an airfield for pilot training Whether you are training to pilot an prior to World War II. Today the aircraft or repair and maintain one, airport is home to a historic warbird Kissimmee Gateway Airport will help museum, premier Fixed-Based you launch a new career in aviation or Operators (FBO), and companies on aerospace. the cutting edge in the aerospace and aeronautical industries. The 80th Photo Courtesy: Kissimmee Gateway Airport Anniversary celebration will continue Proximity to Technology and Innovation Hubs through 2020. The public can take part in exciting planned events like a virtual exhibition of the Given how close we are to NeoCity, the I-4 High Tech Corridor airport’s rich history, hosted by the Osceola Historical Society, and Florida’s Space Coast, Kissimmee Gateway Airport is the or take flight in a historic World War II aircraft like a P-51 ideal place to land your business in Central Florida. When Mustang at the airport’s warbird museum. Visit location and resources matter, count on Kissimmee. For more www.flykissimmee.com/celebrate80 to learn more. information, please visit us at www.flykissimmee.com. issimmee Gateway Airport, Florida-based flight “Every pilot’s definition of an unusual attitude is a little different,” training organization, Lauderback continued. “The FAA Stallion 51, offers real defines them as a position in -time, real-life Upset excess of 25 degrees nose up, 10 KPrevention and Recovery degrees nose down and 45 Training in specially equipped degrees of bank angle. However, L-39 turbojets. This the real life definition is pilot- comprehensive and innovative specific and is based on variations upset prevention and recovery of experience. Addressing those training is identified by the variations is what sets this unique graphic “UT” and is the program apart from simulation or next evolution in Stallion 51’s other training. “We tailor our over 30 year heritage of instruction specifically to the offering training in high individual.” The UAT Company is performance aircraft. “Our located within Stallion 51’s facility Upset Prevention and at the Kissimmee Gateway Airport Recovery Training Program and is a division of Stallion 51. It’s definitely raises the bar even Photo Courtesy: Stallion 51 Corporation purpose is to train pilots to higher for pilots who fly for a recognize and respond accurately living and under all types of conditions,” said Lee and quickly before the situation progresses into one from which Lauderback, Stallion 51’s president. The former chief pilot they may be unable to recover. This type of comprehensive for golf legend Arnold Palmer noted that the unique training, with syllabi in both aero-medical and aerodynamics curriculum has taken several years to develop. “We now subjects, has not been readily available to civilian pilots until the have a comprehensive program that covers all areas of inception of this program. At AvDoc 51, the medical division of prevention, recognition and recovery from unusual attitudes Stallion 51, Flight Surgeon (AME) Dr. William Busch, also a UAT of flying.” ground instructor, teaches the physiology and aero-medical 2 aspects of spatial disorientation that can cause the onset of unusual attitudes. “Our curriculum offers pilots insight into when and why physiological sensations are experienced in the upset environment, how to overcome them, and then safely respond. Flight simulators are very limited in reproducing those disorienting sensations. That is why our program is a safe way to fully realize those sensations and train for appropriate responses.” The UAT L-39s are outfitted with a state-of-the-art Electronic Flight Instrument System with the design capability to withstand extreme flight attitudes. The EFIS equipment closely simulates current corporate and Photo Courtesy: Stallion 51 Corporation executive aircraft cockpit layouts. The UAT L-39s are also training in the recognition and recovery from unusual attitude and equipped with specially designed onboard cameras that allow aircraft upset situations. The UAT program does just that in a for accurate visual and audio debriefs of the training from manner that has not been done before. This FAA-approved both inside the cockpit and outside the airplane. The NTSB program teaches techniques that will not only create safer pilots, strongly recommends that flight departments provide but will hopefully lower insurance rates for aircraft owners as well. ou simply cannot write about the history of aviation in to have their squadron insignia drawn up by none other than Florida without including Kissimmee, located in the Walt Disney, who some thirty years later, chose a location a heart of Central Florida. World famous for its proximity mere ten miles from the WWII base for Walt Disney World. At to Walt Disney World, Kissimmee and its airport boast the end of the war, the base was turned over to the City of Ya storied history. In 1912 an early biplane, believed to be a Kissimmee, and the Kissimmee Municipal Airport began Curtis Pusher, struck a cow within the city limits. As a result, operations. the City of Kissimmee is believed to be the first government in Aviation activity was quiet at the airport up until the 1980s the world to propose a law regarding the regulation of aircraft when growth associated with the theme parks and Orlando operations.
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