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Henry C. Mustin Naval Air Facility (IATA: MUV, ICAO: KMUV), [1] also known as NAF Mustin Field, is a former military airfield located at the United States Navy Naval Aircraft Factory on board the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was in service from 1926 to 1963.
An aerial view of Mustin Field and the shipyard with Philadelphia Municipal Stadium visible behind the runways in September 1948. The Naval Aircraft Factory was established at the League Island site in 1917. Just after of the end World War I, a 350-ton capacity hammerhead crane was ordered for the yard.
League Island was an island in the Delaware River, part of the city of Philadelphia, just upstream from the mouth of the Schuylkill River. The island was developed as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Since the late 20th century, it has been redeveloped and now operates primarily as an industrial park under the name "The Navy Yard".
It was the first time Wyand, a Navy veteran who lived and worked at the shipyard in the late 1980s, learned he may have been exposed to radium-226 and strontium-90 — radionuclides that build up ...
The New Jersey last was in a dry dock in 1991 when the Navy decommissioned her in California. Work was done on the ship in 1999 at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to make her usable as a ...
Following landing trials on a simulated carrier deck at NAS Norfolk, Virginia, the sole Vought XF2U-1, BuNo A-7692, was turned over to the Naval Aircraft Factory at Philadelphia, where it operated from Mustin Field until it was damaged in a crash landing this date [103] and struck off charge the same month. [104] 10 March
The ship is returning to the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, where it was built to take part in America's fight during World War II. The ship's keel was laid in September 1940, and it was ...
It was owned by the city and called Philadelphia Airport. Airline operations were also conducted at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard's Mustin Field, where Philadelphia Rapid Transit Service (P.R.T. Line) operated a three-times daily passenger service to Hoover Field, Washington, D.C. from 6 July to 30 October 1926 using Fokker F.VII Trimotors.