A live air-to-air missile discovered at a small central Florida airport has been secured in a munition storage facility at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.

The unarmed French S-530 air-to-air missile was found at Lakeland Linder International Airport on Friday.

�It is secured and safe and they are just waiting on when and where they are going to dispose of the missile. Those details are yet to be solidified,� Lt. Brandon Hanner, chief of media operations at MacDill, told The Ledger.

Hanner said typically these kinds of weapons are taken to the explosives range and detonated. But this one is �too large to do that at MacDill,� so the disposal logistics are being planned out.

�The only thing out of the ordinary about this is it is not a U.S.-made missile, which is why we were dispatched out to it,� Hanner said.

The missile was found near Draken International, a defense contractor located at the airport. The discovery led to a partial evacuation of the airport, the newspaper reported.

MacDill�s explosive ordnance team secured the device, then the logistics readiness squadron assisted them in bringing it to Tampa on a flatbed trailer, Hanner said.

(AP)