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Macon was christened on 11 March 1933, by Jeanette Whitton Moffett, wife of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. [10] The airship was named after the city of Macon, Georgia, which was the largest city in the Congressional district of Carl Vinson, then the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Naval Affairs.
Moffett Federal Airfield. Moffett Federal Airfield (IATA: NUQ, ICAO: KNUQ, FAA LID: NUQ), also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County, California, United States, between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale. On November 10, 2014, NASA announced that it would be ...
Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres (32,000 m 2; 3.2 ha) at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. The massive hangar has long been one of the most recognizable landmarks of California's Silicon Valley. It was built in the 1930s as a naval airship hangar for USS ...
March 11 (Akron, Ohio), USS Macon christened by Jeannette Whitton Moffett. April 4, (Atlantic Ocean), USS Akron crashes, 74 lives lost, including Rear Admiral Moffett, then Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. April 12, The airbase “NAS Sunnyvale” and Hangar One were dedicated and commissioned and go into service.
February 24, 1994. The U.S. Naval Air Station, Sunnyvale Historic District, also known as Shenandoah Plaza, is a historic district located on 62.48 acres (25.3 ha) [2] at Moffett Field, California. Hangars One, Two, and Three, and the adjacent Shenandoah Plaza are inclusively designated as the historic district listed on the National Register ...
Exhibits at the museum include electronic warfare, navigation, the USS Macon, a collection of ship's silver serving dishes, Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, memorial, a collection of uniforms, aircrew survival equipment, a Link Trainer, the various aviation organizations at Moffett Field over the years and a room with a model train layout ...
Commander Patrol Wing TEN (COMPATWING 10) West Coast Center Orion Patrol Squadron. Lockheed P-3 Orion. 1963, January −1993. USN. Naval Air Reserve, Commander Reserve Patrol Wing Pacific (COMRESPATWINGPAC) West Coast Center Orion Patrol Squadron. Lockheed P-3 Orion. 1963, January −1993.
USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933.It was the world's first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier, carrying F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes, which could be launched and recovered while it was in flight.