This long-standing monument at Orlando MCO commemorates the SAC operation here long before the current airport was developed on the site of McCoy AFB, which had B-52Ds based from 1961 to 1974. The base, which used to be Pinecastle AFB, was renamed in 1958 after Col McCoy who was killed in a B-47 crash nearby.

Guarding the gate at Orlando International, the former Mc Coy Air Force base.

Guarding the gate at Orlando International, the former Mc Coy Air Force base.

at B-52 Memorial Park

Preserved on the northern edge of Orlando International Airport, which was redeveloped from the former McCoy AFB, home to Strategic Air Command B-52s and KC-135s. McCoy was the source of the civil airport's IATA 3-letter code MCO.

Del 22 December 1956 Preserved at Memorial Park, Orlando International Airport (North East Side), Orlando, FL.

The B-52 Memorial Park is located within the Orlando International Airport just off the Beachline Expressway formerly the Bee Line near runway 18L. It is under the control of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA). This retired B-52D was at one time assigned to the 306th Bomb Wing of the now defunct McCoy Air Force Base. The bomber was built in 1956 and retired in 1984. Final flight was from its last unit of assignment, the 7th Bomb Wing at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth Texas, to the former McCoy AFB, now Orlando International Airport, on February 20, 1984.