Aircraft Landing Strip?

[cplance]

Along the road that leads from Fort Wilderness to the TTC area, there is a long strip of concrete perpindicular (sp?) to the road on the north side.

Does anyone know if this is an aircraft landing strip? It looks long enough for a private plane and I have never seen any vehicles on this strip.

Any ideas?

 

[mkt]

that's the STOLport (Speedy Takeoff and Landing). It was supposed to be a private airstrip @ WDW, but never went through. It is now used as a staging area for convention busses, parking for golf event vehicles, and WDW bus driver training. If a plane were to land there, it wouldn't be able to take off though

 

[roysta123]

STOLport

mktiggerman, your pretty close but I am almost 100% sure that the STOLport stands for Short TakeOff and Landing.

 

[jwbeck3]

it can't take off because of Disney's air restrictions, right?.......isn't there a rule that you can't take off in Disney property?

 

[lamarvenoy]

The landing strip shows up even on current aviation maps, it is not useable because it is so short, the plains that were designed to take off on such short strips aren't common. it also has not been maintained to FAA standards. I've got a great video from a couple of years ago when I went around the poles in the ground and drove up and down it a couple of times-didn't even get caught

 

[Space Ranger 1]

what I heard about that strip was that back in the day when they first started to work on the Magic Kingdom. It was made for Walt's plane to land because the closes airport was quite a distance away.

They also said the strip was alot longer back then, and they could land and take off from it. I'm not sure how true the story is, but heard it from a bus driver that was taking us from the Contemporary to Downtown Disney.

 

[stuart]

space ranger 1 you are right in part in that it was used by walt. However the reasopn of its construction wasnt just to fly him in, but some parts of the castle and other rides were too large to be transported by road and had to be brought in by air.

The strip is sometimes used. Any plane that has technical diffculties or the like can land their if it can land on the short runway and take off again. Aircraft cannot just land their without permission. If one does apparently it will be broken up and transported out. It may well have been the same driver that told you that as the one that told me what i said in the first paragraph.