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In August 1986 during the NAS Moffett Field Airshow, the Italian demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, and the German Navy's F-104 flight demonstration team, the Vikings, [17] performed in front of the crowd. At its peak in the 1990s, NAS Moffett Field was the U.S. Navy's principal Pacific Fleet base for the P-3C operations.
2 1935–1943: Army Air Corps Training Base Sunnyvale, CA 3 1942–1947: WWII Blimps and Gas Balloon operations 4 1943–1953: Naval Patrol heavier than air operations
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.
The Beginning of Airships in the Bay Area, Beginning of Air Base Sunnyvale California. Looking at 1,700 acres of broccoli, cauliflower and hay fields, Laura Thane Whipple, a local real estate agent then selling a ranch in Sunnyvale, recalled reading of the need for a 'metropolitan area' dirigible base on the west coast. The photos she took the ...
The 129th Rescue Wing (129 RQW) is a unit of the California Air National Guard, stationed at Moffett Federal Airfield in Sunnyvale, California.The wing is equipped with the HC-130J Combat King II and the HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter.
The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.It was founded in 1939 [1] as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory.
A former Air Force base responsible for potentially exposing hundreds of thousands to toxic chemicals is now a desolate wasteland that has remained abandoned in California for 32 years.
Naval Air Station Moffett Field: Mountain View: California: Transferred to NASA and redesignated as Moffett Federal Airfield for NASA and the California Air National Guard. Naval Air Station Montauk: Montauk: New York [66] Naval Air Station New York: Brooklyn: New York: 1971 Realigned as CGAS New York, closed 1999 Naval Air Station Niagara ...