page_title: Daytona Beach International Airport
section_title: Naval Air Station Daytona Beach
hierarchical_section_title: Daytona Beach International Airport / History / Naval Air Station Daytona Beach
caption_attribution_description: English: US Navy Photo 80-G-283919 - Naval Air Station Daytona Beach, October 26, 1944. Overhead aerial view from 8,250 fee5 altitude
context_page_description: Daytona Beach International Airport is a county-owned airport located three miles southwest of Daytona Beach, next to Daytona International Speedway, in Volusia County, Florida, United States. The airport has 3 runways, a six-gate domestic terminal, and an international terminal. Daytona Beach is the headquarters of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
context_section_description: When World War II broke out the US Navy took over and used the airport for training, calling it Naval Air Station Daytona Beach.  An extensive military construction effort followed, to include multiple new buildings for NAS Daytona Beach, as well as the construction of Naval Outlying Fields (NOLFs) which were built at Spruce Creek, New Smyrna Beach, Ormond Beach and Bunnell and that were shared with NAS Jacksonville, NAS Sanford and NAS DeLand.
  NAS Daytona Beach conducted advanced training for Naval Aviators and enlisted Naval Aircrewmen of the US Navy and US Marine Corps in aircraft ranging from carrier-based single seat F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair fighters to the multi-seat SB2C Helldiver dive bomber.  At the end of the war, NAS Daytona Beach was decommissioned and the auxiliary airfields were returned to the respective local governments for civil use as airports.
  Many of the buildings constructed by the Navy were later used by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University after the university's move from Miami in 1965, while others were used by the city aviation department that later became the current aviation authority.
caption: Naval Air Station Daytona Beach, October 1944.
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