DeLand Municipal Airport explained

DeLand Municipal Airport
Icao:KDED
Faa:DED
Type:Public
Owner:City of DeLand
City-Served:DeLand, Florida, U.S.
Elevation-F:79
Elevation-M:24
Coordinates:29.0669°N -81.2839°W
Pushpin Map:USA Florida#USA
Pushpin Relief:yes
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Florida
Pushpin Label:DED
Pushpin Label Position:left
R1-Number:12/30
R1-Length-F:6,000
R1-Length-M:1,829
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:5/23
R2-Length-F:4,300
R2-Length-M:1,311
R2-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2002
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:77,710
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:162
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

DeLand Municipal Airport, also known as Sidney H. Taylor Field, is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (5 km) northeast of the central business district of DeLand, a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States.

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the Federal Aviation Administration and IATA, this airport is assigned DED by the FAA but no designation from the IATA (which assigned DED to Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun, India).[2] [3] [4]

History

Military use

See main article: DeLand Naval Air Station. The city first began developing the airport in the 1920s, with the first asphalt runway laid around 1936. In 1942, the City of DeLand donated the facility to the U.S. Navy. It was renamed Naval Air Station DeLand on November 17, 1942.[5]

Following extensive military construction, NAS DeLand's primary focus was advanced training for Navy flight crews in land-based PBO Ventura and PB4Y-2 Privateer patrol bombers, and carrier-based SBD Dauntless dive bombers. Several of the U.S. Navy's former and present day maritime patrol and reconnaissance (VP) squadrons operating the P-3 Orion trace their squadron lineage to being initially established at NAS DeLand during World War II.

In 1944, training in the carrier-based F6F Hellcat fighter was added to NAS DeLand's mission.

Nine Mile Point on Lake George was also under NAS DeLand's control, and was used as a practice bombing site with a Navy PBY Catalina seaplane stationed nearby in the event of an aircraft mishap on the lake. This Lake George site is still used today as part of the Navy's Pinecastle Electronic Warfare and Bombing Range managed by NAS Jacksonville.

NAS DeLand was decommissioned following the end of World War II, its control tower closed, and control of the airfield returned to the City of DeLand. Numerous former military buildings remain standing as part of the airport's industrial park and the Naval Air Station DeLand Museum.

Current use

Today, the airport serves as an uncontrolled general aviation reliever airport to commercial operations at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB), Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) and Orlando International Airport (MCO). In 2007, an analysis was completed for the possible establishment of an FAA Level 1 air traffic control tower at DED under the FAA's Contract Tower Program.

Facilities and aircraft

DeLand Municipal Airport covers an area of 1289acres which contains two asphalt paved runways: 12/30 measuring 6,000 x 100 ft (1,829 x 30 m) and 5/23: 4,300 x 75 ft (1,311 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending May 7, 2002, the airport had 77,710 aircraft operations, an average of 212 per day: 99% general aviation, 1% air taxi and <1% military. There are 162 aircraft based at this airport: 70% single-engine, 23% multi-engine, 2% jet, 4% helicopter and 1% ultralight.

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Notes and References

  1. , effective October 25, 2007
  2. Web site: Airline and Airport Code Search . International Air Transport Association (IATA) . November 14, 2016.
  3. Web site: DeLand Municipal Airport (IATA: none, ICAO: KDED, FAA: DED) . Great Circle Mapper . November 14, 2016.
  4. Web site: Dehra Dun Airport (IATA: DED, ICAO: VIDN) . . November 14, 2016.
  5. Web site: Florida in WWII – Historic Sites and Resources . Flheritage.com . December 8, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050315152323/http://www.flheritage.com/wwii/sites.cfm?PR_ID=76 . March 15, 2005.