Boca Raton

Boca Raton, FL USA (KBCT / BCT)

Boca Raton was the site of two now vanished amusement parks, Africa U.S.A. [1953-1961] and Ancient America [1953-1959]. Africa U.S.A. was a wild animal park in which the tourists drove through the park and could view the animals outside their cars. It is now the Camino Gardens subdivision one mile (1.6 km) west of the Boca Raton Hotel. Ancient America was built surrounding a real Calusa Indian burial mound. Today, the mound is still visible within the Boca Marina & Yacht Club neighborhood on U.S. Highway 1, just north of Yamato Road.

In the 1970s Boca Raton became home to a special subdivision of IBM which was responsible in 1981 for designing the first IBM PC. IBM relocated their manufacturing facilities for the PC to North Carolina and eventually closed down and sold their facility to Blue Lake which sold it to T-REX. A newer part of their facility (Building 051) was donated to a high-tech middle school named Don Estridge High-Tech Middle School. It is named after Don Estridge, who’s team designed the first Personal Computer.

Another local company at the cutting edge of air charter is A First Class Charter. Operating out of the KBCT Boca Raton Airport, A First Class Air Charter provides charter services throughout the United States and abroad.

A First Class Charter is a proud sponsor of the KBCT airport.