{"id":174,"date":"2019-06-11T01:32:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T01:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=174"},"modified":"2019-06-11T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T01:33:01","slug":"draken-international-will-be-engine-testing-over-next-eight-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/06\/11\/draken-international-will-be-engine-testing-over-next-eight-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Draken International Will Be Engine Testing Over Next Eight Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Draken International<\/a>, a defense contractor located at\nLakeland Linder International Airport will be completing engine runs on\ntheir F-1\nMirage<\/a> aircraft starting June 12th. Testing will take place over the\nnext eight weeks and each engine runs will last approximately 1.5 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gene Conrad, Director of Lakeland Linder International\nAirport said, \u201cDraken will be doing high-power engine testing 2-3 times per\nweek during the testing phase and we want the community, especially those that\nlive near the airport to be aware.  Jet engine noise levels will be higher\nthan normal during this testing period.\u201d All testing will take place during\nnormal business hours. These engine runs will continue to bolster Draken\u2019s\nability to provide the best training in the world to the nation\u2019s Combat Air\nForces.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conrad said, \u201cDraken is a great corporate citizen and we are excited to see the next evolution of Draken\u2019s operations and to help our local community benefit from the ever-expanding job opportunities these operations represent.\u201d Draken International, Inc. is an American provider of tactical fighter aircraft for contract air services including military and defense industry customers. The firm is based at the Lakeland Linder International Airport in Lakeland, Florida.\u00a0 Draken has a fleet of over 150 tactical fighter aircraft, operating the world\u2019s largest commercial fleet of tactical ex-military aircraft.\u00a0 Draken supports military training objectives around the globe, providing cost savings over the use of traditional military fighter assets.\u00a0 The company has set a new standard in tactical flight support.\u00a0 Draken aircraft are used in various types of military training objectives around the globe to include support for the U.S Air Force, U.S Navy, U.S Marine Corps, and other International partners. Draken services represent tremendous cost savings over the use of traditional military fighter assets. For additional information, visit\u00a0drakenintl.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Draken International, a defense contractor located at Lakeland Linder International Airport will be completing engine runs on their F-1 Mirage aircraft starting June 12th. Testing will take place over the next eight… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}