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9 unusual facts about Orlando International Airport


Brady Keys

Keys currently own 11 Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants most of which is in Southwest Georgia where Keys currently resides, One of the restaurants are located in Orlando International Airport.

Denise Grimsley

During her final term in the House, Grimsley came under fire when the Orlando Sentinel reported that she had received a $10,000 contribution from The Walt Disney Company after she worked to include a $1.2 million appropriation for a LYNX bus route from Orlando International Airport to Disney's Orlando resort.

José Meléndez-Pérez

José Meléndez-Pérez is a Puerto Rican-born United States Customs and Border Protection Inspector at Orlando International Airport who became a key figure for the 9/11 Commission when he refused entry to an alleged terrorist prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Orlando Airport

Orlando International Airport (MCO) – the primary commercial service airport for Orlando, Florida

Orlando International Airport

The community of The Villages in Sumter, Lake, and Marion has shuttles operating between the community and Orlando International Airport.

The base later was home to the 306th Bombardment Wing operating the B-52 Stratofortress and the KC-135 Stratotanker.

On March 31, 1972, a 306th Bombardment Wing B-52D Stratofortress, Air Force Serial Number 56-0625, sustained multiple engine failures and an engine fire shortly after takeoff from McCoy AFB on a routine training mission.

Following Eastern's demise, Delta Air Lines assumed this role, although it later pulled much of its large aircraft operations from Orlando, and focused its service there on regional jet flights, specifically with Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Comair and Chautauqua Airlines - all part of the Delta Connection system.

On February 16, 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott formally announced that he would be rejecting federal funds to construct a high-speed railway project in the state, thereby killing the Florida High Speed Rail project.


Florida high speed rail

One would have split from I-4 at the interchange with SR 536, World Center Drive, and run east along SR 536 and SR 417, the Central Florida GreeneWay, to the south entrance to Orlando International Airport, from which it would head north to end at the planned South Terminal.

Greater Orlando Aviation Authority

GOAA replaced the former City of Orlando Aviation Department in 1976 following the closure of McCoy Air Force Base and its conveyance from the U.S. Air Force to the General Services Administration to the City of Orlando, and its subsequent transition to Orlando International Airport.


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José Meléndez-Pérez

After his separation from the Army, he began his career with INS in November 1992 at Miami International Airport as an inspector, and later as an inspector at Orlando International Airport.