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In November 1940, the U.S. Government acquired the land (around 1.1 km 2) that would eventually become Naval Air Station Oceana.At that time, the surrounding area was mainly farmland susceptible to flooding, but it served as a useful outlying field for the rapidly expanding naval air force headquartered at NAS Norfolk and allowed units to work up for deployments away from the crowded base there.
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro (ICAO: KNZJ, FAA LID: NZJ) was a United States Marine Corps Air Station located next to the community of El Toro, near Irvine, California. Before it was decommissioned in 1999, it was the 4,682-acre (19 km 2 ) home of Marine Corps Aviation on the West Coast.
In 1928 Naval Reserve Air Station Minneapolis was created At Wold Chamberlain Field. [2] That same year the name changed to Naval Reserve Air Base (NRAB) Minneapolis. [2] In 1943 it was changed to NAS Minneapolis. During WWII it served as a training facility for aviation cadets. [2]
Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Whiting Field was commissioned on July 16, 1943, by Rear Admiral George D. Murray, Commandant of the Naval Air Training Center, and the widow of Naval Captain Kenneth Whiting, after whom the station was named. During construction, a prisoner of war camp was located at the station, providing additional labor. [7]
Naval Air Station North Island; Naval Outlying Field Imperial Beach; Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island; Naval Base Point Loma; Naval Medical Center San Diego; Naval Air Facility El Centro; Naval Air Station Lemoore; Naval Support Activity Monterey [1] Naval Postgraduate School; Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach; Naval Base ...
Youngstown Air Reserve Station (sometimes abbreviated as YARS [2]) (IATA: YNG, ICAO: KYNG) is a military facility located in Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, 11 miles north of Youngstown and 10 miles east of Warren in the United States.
In support of the base's training mission are three nearby outlying landing fields owned by the Navy: Naval Outlying Field Waldron, which is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of the Naval Air Station, Naval Outlying Field Cabaniss, which is 8.0 miles (12.9 km) west of the Naval Air Station and Naval Outlying Field Goliad which is 57.7 miles (92.9 km ...
The United States Navy purchased the property in 1921 for use as an airship station and renamed it Naval Air Station Lakehurst (NAS Lakehurst). [ 4 ] The United States Navy 's lighter-than-air program was conducted at Lakehurst from its inception through the 1930s.