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Coordinates (Air Base) (Army Base) (Naval Station): Type: US military Joint Base: Site information; Owner: Department of Defense: Operator: US Air Force: Controlled by: Air Mobility Command (AMC): Condition: Operational: Website: www.jbmdl.jb.mil: Site history; Built: 1916 (as Camp Kendrick) 1917 (as Camp Dix) 1937 (as Fort Dix Airport): In use: 2009 () – present (as Joint Base): Garrison ...
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.
Hangar No. 1 is an airship hangar located at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.It was the intended destination of the rigid airship LZ 129 Hindenburg prior to the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, when it burned while landing.
McGuire AFB/McGuire, the common name of the McGuire unit of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is a United States Air Force base in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, approximately 16.1 miles (25.9 km) south-southeast of Trenton. McGuire is under the jurisdiction of the Air Mobility Command.
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1.13 New Jersey. 1.14 New Mexico. 1.15 New York. 1.16 North Dakota. 1.17 Pennsylvania. ... Lakehurst Maxfield Field (formerly Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst) ...
Manchester Township is a township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The township is noted for containing the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the site of the infamous Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937.
Marine Aircraft Group 49 is a United States Marine Corps Reserve aviation unit based at Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst, New Jersey that is currently composed of squadrons that fly the MV-22B, CH-53E, AH-1Z, UH-1Y, UC-35D and UC-12F/W aircraft as well as an Aviation Logistics Squadron and Wing Support Squadron.