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2013

Flights of Fancy : Florida's Aviation Legacy

James Anthony Schnur

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Recommended Citation Schnur, James Anthony, "Flights of Fancy : Florida's Aviation Legacy" (2013). USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications. 3008. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fac_publications/3008

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Jim Schnur Eckerd College (1889-1916)

Florida Memory Collection, State Archives of Florida Evening Independent , 2/26/1915 This article appeared on the back page!

Evening Independent, 1/1/1914 Dale Mabry (1891-1922)

Florida Memory Collection, State Archives of Florida Albert Whitted (1893-1923)

Special Collections and Archives, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, Albert Whitted (right) University of South Florida St. Petersburg with his family, 1900

Florida Memory Collection, State Archives of Florida Dirigibles over St. Petersburg, mid-1920s

Special Collections and Archives, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, University of South Florida St. Petersburg (SPG)

Special Collections and Archives, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, University of South Florida St. Petersburg Special Collections and Archives, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, University of South Florida St. Petersburg Advertisement, September 7, 1929 1957

Graber Collection of Florida Aerial Photographs, USF Tampa

1956

circa 1970 Grand Central Airport/ Sky Harbor Airport (north of St. Petersburg)

Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/FL/Airfields_FL_TampaS.htm#grandcentral

http://www.flickr.com St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport (PIE) (formerly Pinellas Army Air Field) Pinellas Airport, 1958-9 Graber Collection, USF Peter O. Knight Airport (TPF) (Davis Island, near downtown Tampa)

Burgert Brothers Collection, Special Collections , USF Tampa Library Robertson and Fresh Collection of Tampa Photographs, USF Tampa Tampa International Airport (TIA) (formerly Drew Field)

1931

State Archives of Florida (upper left image) 1945 1948 Special Collections, USF Tampa Library (others)

TIA: New Terminal Opens in 1952

Juan’s Tampa International Airport “Fan” Page, http://www.geocities.com/anastasia757/

Juan’s Tampa International Airport “Fan” Page, http://www.geocities.com/anastasia757/ TIA: Present Facility Opens in 1971

Juan’s Tampa International Airport “Fan” Page, http://www.geocities.com/anastasia757/ Juan’s Tampa International Airport “Fan” Page, http://www.geocities.com/anastasia757/ Hillsborough Army Air Field/Henderson Airport

1948 aerial image 1993 photo of area, with Busch Gardens ride in the background

http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/FL/Airfields_FL_TampaN.htm#henderson Google Maps Orlando International Airport (MCO)

1946

1932

Mid-1960s (below) International Airport (MIA)

www.flickr.com

1967 Miami International Airport, 1940 (top), 1953 (right), 1960s (upper right and below) Dale Mabry Field (Tallahassee) (now the site of Tallahassee Community College)

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1929

1939

1942

Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida Tallahassee Regional Airport (TLH)

Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida National

Miami International Airport, 1951 Car fleet at Jacksonville Airport, 1940s Tallahassee, 1947

Tallahassee Office, 1945

Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida Mail carrier at Albert Whitted in St. Petersburg (1936, top) Passenger plane used in service between Daytona Beach and St. Petersburg (1934, right)

Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida Eastern Airlines

Desk at Dale Mabry Field, Hangers in Miami Tallahassee, 1954

Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida Pan American Airways

“Old Island Trading Post” in Key West where began operations.

Pan Am’s first flight went Shipping cattle from from Key West to Miami to Havana, 1934 Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida Air Florida

Routes in 1978

http://airchive.com/html/timetable-and-route-maps/1/air-florida/180 Air Florida publicity photograph from the 1970s