NAS WHITING FIELD, Fla. (WKRG) — According to officials, NAS Whiting Field is the busiest naval air station in the world, with roughly 1.3 million flight operations per year.
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NAS Whiting Field in Santa Rosa County, Florida. (WKRG)
“To put it in perspective, if you were to fly out of Atlanta or out of some of the busier hubs, they only do about 700 to 800,000 operations,” Community Planning Liaison Officer Randy Roy said. “We almost double them.”
Whiting Field was founded in 1943 to fill the need to train pilots during WW2. From the 1940s until today, the air station’s main mission has been to train pilots for the US Navy fleet…