Whiting Field, located 8 miles north of Milton, has served as a prisoner-of-war camp for German soldiers, home of the famed Blue Angels flight demonstration team and home of the Navy's first jet training unit.
Today Whiting Field hosts a fleet of over 200 T-34Cs and 150 TH-57s. Over 1,200 students complete primary flight training here each year on 2 airfields and 13 outlying fields.