KPIE – St Petersburg-Clearwater Int’l Airport Airfield Art
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KPIE – St Petersburg-Clearwater Int’l Airport Airfield Art vintage style military aviation travel poster art by – Squadron Posters! The airport is on the west shoreline of Tampa Bay, six miles (10 km) north of St. Petersburg, Florida (the “birthplace of commercial air transportation”). Barely a decade after the pioneer flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first tickets for airline travel were sold by the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line of Tony Jannus to fare-paying passengers. Once known as: Pinellas Army Air Field. Construction of the airport at its present site started in March 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the airport was acquired by the United States Army Air Forces, which used it as a military flight training base assigned to Third Air Force. – Currently the airport is also the home of Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, the largest and busiest U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in the United States, operating HC-130 Hercules and MH-60T Jayhawk aircraft. The U.S. Army Reserve also maintains an Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF) at PIE immediately west of the approach end of Runway 17R for Companies A and F, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment and Medical Evacuation Unit, operating UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters.
