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2017 SUN ‘n FUN Numbers

The 43rd Annual SUN ‘n FUN International Fly-In & Expo presented by VISIT FLORIDA and the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association took place April 4 –9, 2017 in Lakeland, Florida. SnF17 was the best fly-in SUN ‘n FUN has ever had. We are pleased to release the following data and fun facts:

• Approximately 200,000 guests attended from over 60 countries

• Brazil, Canada and United Kingdom once again had the highest amount of visitors

• SUN ‘n FUN ordered over 400 Portalets, 18 light towers, 415 golf carts, and 120 tents

• More than 4,000 rolls of toilet paper were used during the week

• SUN ‘n FUN distributed 90,000 bottles of water and approximately 19,000 sandwiches to volunteers

• More than 3,000 volunteers helped during the 6-day event

• HAM Radio worked 39 States, 12 Countries, Canada, Italy, Norway, Estonia are some of them and had a total of 742 worldwide contacts for the 6 days.

• 38 Student tours were conducted with 969 students

• Approximately 400 people attended educational workshops

• 500 Students attended the Blue Angels Symposium

• 10,000 Visitors toured the Piedmont Aerospace Experience, the only working Boeing 727 Classroom on a high school campus

• 7 speakers in the Museum that travelled Mach 3 (3 times the speed of sound) in the iconic SR-71 Blackbird

• 130 Career Minded individuals from 48 states and 3 countries attended our 4th Annual Career Fair with 14 exhibitors

• One astronaut, Senator Bill Nelson, spoke to educators during the Aerospace Educators Workshop

• First ever UAV Demonstration during an Air Show

• 500 People participated in the inaugural Drone Zone

• 443 media representatives attended from 16 countries

• 5,988 people attended 331 forums

• 3,228 People attended 56 workshops

• over 9,000 aircraft movements took place

• 510 Exhibitors participated in the event

SUN ‘n FUN Radio stats:

· Total connections: 21,882 (up 0.5% over 2016)
Total unique listeners: 8,431 (up 0.35% over 2016)

· More than 44 hours were live broadcasted over the 6 days

· Approximately 120 Live interviews and 120 field interviews were conducted

Social Media stats:

• Total Reach (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) = over 2.5 million

• Total Impressions = almost 10 million

• Engagement Rate = over 500,000 on Facebook

• Surpassed 80,000 Facebook followers

• Fielded more than 500 direct messages for customer service – and responded to 99% of them in fewer than 20 minutes

Florida Aviation Network stats:

· 82 Volunteers were on the crew and worked throughout the week of SUN ‘n FUN 2017 .

· Broadcasted 45 interviews from our set at the Florida Aviation Museum and shot numerous reports from the field.

Jackie Jenkins

Communications Coordinator

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