Jump to content
Main menu
Navigation
●Main page
●Contents
●Current events
●Random article
●About Wikipedia
●Contact us
●Donate
Contribute
●Help
●Learn to edit
●Community portal
●Recent changes
●Upload file
Search
●Create account
●Log in
●Create account
● Log in
Pages for logged out editors learn more
●Contributions
●Talk
(Top)
1
See also
2
References
3
External links
Valkaria Airport
●Cebuano
●فارسی
●Тоҷикӣ
●اردو
Edit links
●Article
●Talk
●Read
●Edit
●View history
Tools
Actions
●Read
●Edit
●View history
General
●What links here
●Related changes
●Upload file
●Special pages
●Permanent link
●Page information
●Cite this page
●Get shortened URL
●Download QR code
●Wikidata item
Print/export
●Download as PDF
●Printable version
Appearance
Coordinates: 27°57′39.1″N 080°33′30.0″W / 27.960861°N 80.558333°W / 27.960861; -80.558333
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Airport in Brevard County, Florida
Valkaria Airport (FAA LID: X59) is a public-use airport located 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the central business district of the city of Grant-ValkariainBrevard County, Florida, United States. The airport is publicly owned.[1]
The airport was originally constructed by the U.S. Navy during World War II as Naval Outlying Landing Field Valkaria (NOLF Valkaria), an auxiliary airfield to Naval Air Station Melbourne, now Melbourne International Airport. NOLF Valkaria was closed in late 1945 and did not reopen for flight operations until 1959. During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the site was used as a Missile Trajectory Measurement (MISTRAM) station by the U.S. Air Force and NASA in support of launch operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.
In 1959, the United States Department of Defense and the General Services Administration conveyed that part of the Valkaria facility not dedicated to MISTRAM to the county government of Brevard County, Florida for use as a public airport.[2]
The Valkaria Airport also has the Space Coast Drone Test Center.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
-
Resources for this airport:
|
t
e
|
|---|
| Primary |
|
|---|
| Reliever |
|
|---|
| General |
|
|---|
| Public use |
|
|---|
| Private use |
|
|---|
| Military |
|
|---|
| Defunct |
|
|---|
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valkaria_Airport&oldid=1189722294"
Categories:
●Airports in Brevard County, Florida
●1940s establishments in Florida
●Closed installations of the United States Navy
Hidden categories:
●Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
●All articles with dead external links
●Articles with dead external links from March 2022
●Coordinates on Wikidata
●Articles with short description
●Short description is different from Wikidata
●This page was last edited on 13 December 2023, at 16:01 (UTC).
●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0;
additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
●Privacy policy
●About Wikipedia
●Disclaimers
●Contact Wikipedia
●Code of Conduct
●Developers
●Statistics
●Cookie statement
●Mobile view
