Tank America Opens in Orlando With 17-Ton Tank Driving Experience

Tank America Opens in Orlando With 17-Ton Tank Driving Experience
Visitors get behind the controls of a 17-ton FV433 Abbot tank at Tank America in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 3, 2022. Courtesy of Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel/TNS
Tribune News Service
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ORLANDO, Fla.—Tucked in the woods of urban Orlando, just off Forsyth Road near Colonial Drive, there’s trouble afoot with enemy troops lurking and the scene of a plane crash in the trees.

At least, this is the narrative tourists will experience while driving a 17-ton tank—what some might consider a bucket-list item—at Tank America, which recently relocated from Melbourne to Orlando. The experience opened near the coast in 2017 and moved this year to be closer to what co-owner John Kinney called “the largest tourism destination in the country.”