Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip

Infobox Airport
name = Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip
IATA = XMR
ICAO = KXMR
type = Military
owner = United States Air Force
location = Cocoa Beach, Florida
elevation-f = 10
elevation-m = 3
coordinates = coord|28|28|03|N|80|33|60|W|type:airport
r1-number = 13/31
r1-length-f = 10,000
r1-length-m = 3,048
r1-surface = Asphalt

Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip airport codes|XMR|KXMR is a military airport near Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States. Part of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station complex, the CCAFS Skid Strip was mostly remembered as the runway used by NASA's Pregnant Guppy and Super Guppy transport aircraft used to carry the S-IVB upper stage for the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets used in Project Apollo. Today, it is predominantly used by USAF C-130 Hercules, C-17 Globemaster III and C-5 Galaxy aircraft transporting satellite payloads to CCAFS for mating with launch vehicles.

The CCAFS Skid Strip is sometimes confused with the NASA Shuttle Landing Facility, but that runway, specially constructed for the Space Shuttle, is located at the adjacent NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center.

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