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DeLand Municipal Airport

DeLand Municipal Airport
Sidney H. Taylor Field
DeLandMunicipalAirportAerial.jpg
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of DeLand
Serves DeLand, Florida, U.S.
Elevation AMSL 79 ft / 24 m
Coordinates 29°04′01″N 081°17′02″W / 29.06694°N 81.28389°W / 29.06694; -81.28389Coordinates: 29°04′01″N 081°17′02″W / 29.06694°N 81.28389°W / 29.06694; -81.28389
Website www.deland.org/airport/
Map
DED is located in Florida
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DED is located in the US
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Location of airport in Florida / United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 6,000 1,829 Asphalt
5/23 4,300 1,311 Asphalt
Statistics (2002)
Aircraft operations 77,710
Based aircraft 162
Aircraft operations 77,710
Based aircraft 162

DeLand Municipal Airport (ICAO: KDED, FAA LID: DED), 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.

This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of DED by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code (the IATA assigned DED to Jolly Grant Airport in Dehra Dun, India).

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 and it was renamed Naval Air Station DeLand on November 17, 1942.

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.


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