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Titusville-Cocoa Speedway
Space Coast Regional Airport is in Titusville, Florida, United States, on Columbia Boulevard (State Road 405 (Florida), State Road 405) and Washington Avenue (U.S. Route 1 in Florida, U.S. 1) in Brevard County, Florida, Brevard County. Formerly known, and still colloquially referred to, as Ti-Co (Titusville-Cocoa, Florida, Cocoa) Airport, it is the nearest commercial airport to the Kennedy Space Center. History In 1943 the U.S. Government built the airport on land jointly owned by both cities, Titusville and Cocoa. The airfield had two x runways with a taxiway system. The U.S. Government developed the airport to serve as an outlying field (OLF) to Naval Air Station Sanford during World War II. The airport was built by the Civil Aeronautics Administration (United States), Civil Aeronautics Administration under the "Development of Landing Areas for National Defense" Program to help relieve other area military bases of training exercises during World War II. The government ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titusville, Florida
Titusville is a city in and the county seat of Brevard County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 48,789, up from 43,761 at the 2010 census. Titusville is located along the Indian River (Florida), Indian River, west of Merritt Island, Florida, Merritt Island and the Kennedy Space Center, and south-southwest of the Canaveral National Seashore. It is a principal city of the Palm Bay, Florida, Palm Bay–Melbourne, Florida, Melbourne–Titusville, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. A secondary, ''de facto'' county seat was established beginning in 1989, at Viera, Florida, in the geographic center of the county, to better serve the more populous southern portion of the county. History Indigenous peoples had inhabited this area for thousands of years, as shown by discovery in 1982 of the Windover Archeological Site, dating to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |