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The Santa Rosa airfield was relinquished by the US Navy between 1946–48 and reactivated in 1951 for the Korean War. It was abandoned by the Navy between 1952 and 1954. It was reopened between 1966 and 1967 as a civilian airport named the Santa Rosa Air Center, and it permanently closed in 1991.
Simultaneous development of NALF Santa Rosa was more extensive because poor site drainage caused periodic flooding of the Cotati field. Touch-and-go landing practice became the primary activity at the Cotati satellite airfield of the Santa Rosa Auxiliary Naval Air Station. Runway damage from 1945 flooding terminated military flight operations ...
A model room includes dioramas of Santa Rosa Army Airfield and Santa Rosa Naval Auxiliary Air Station and a model of the USS Intrepid. [15] Other objects include an R-4360 engine, SR-71 parts, an F-4N simulator and DC-6 and RF-8G cockpits.
Naval Outlying Landing Field (NOLF) Santa Rosa (ICAO: KNGS, FAA LID: NGS) is a military use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) southeast of the central business district of Milton, in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
For airfield information see NAS Whiting Field – North and NAS Whiting Field – South Naval Air Station Whiting Field is a United States Navy base located near Milton, Florida , with some outlying fields near Navarre, Florida , in south and central Santa Rosa County , and is one of the Navy's two primary pilot training bases (the other being ...
72-0245 – New Mexico ANG, Santa Rosa Route 66 Airport, Santa Rosa, New Mexico. [citation needed] 72-0247 – Naval Air Reserve Facility, Rickenbacker Airport, Columbus, Ohio. [citation needed] 72-0254 – Arthur N Neu Airport, Carroll, Iowa. [citation needed] 72-0261 – Selfridge Military Air Museum and Air Park, Selfridge AFB, Michigan [37]
In the 1930s Santa Rosa had a small municipal airfield owned by Richfield Oil Corporation next to the Redwood Highway about 6 miles southeast of the present airport. Use of the 3,000-foot sod runway at the earlier airfield was discontinued during World War II as facilities at the present airport improved.
This airfield is situated on 640 acres (259 ha) and has eight runways, all 1,800 feet (550 m) long by 200 feet (61 m) wide. These runways are arranged to make two squares, one whose vertices approximately point north, south, east and west, and another which lies directly on top but is rotated 45°.