The team's new name and colors pay homage to the Lakeland School of Aeronautics, later the Lodwick School of Aeronautics, which trained over 8,000 pilots between 1940 and 1945, some of whom later flew with the Flying Tigers in China during World War II.
Detroit Tigers | V-1 flying bomb | Royal Flying Corps | flying boat | Leicester Tigers | Monty Python's Flying Circus | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | flying ace | The Flying Nun | LSU Tigers football | Flying Tigers | The Flying Burrito Brothers | Balmain Tigers | Lakeland | Flying Dutchman | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | Auburn Tigers | unidentified flying object | Flying Fish Cove | Flying ace | Central Flying School | Auburn Tigers football | Wests Tigers | UST Growling Tigers | The Flying Doctors | Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia | Massillon Tigers | Hanshin Tigers | Hamilton Tigers | Filoil Flying V Arena |
The facility is also the regular season home of the Class A Florida State League Lakeland Flying Tigers.