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Goodyear's assembly program at NAS Moffett Field ended after delivering thirty-nine (39) G-class blimps, L-class blimps, and K-class blimps. As many as twenty blimps at a time were on duty at the base during the war years. NAS Moffett Field had an excellent record of ship and mine detection. However, as jet airplanes were developed and began to ...
Marine Air-Ground Task Force: Douglas AD Skyraider: 1955–1959: USMC: Air Task Group 4: Marine Air-Ground Task Force: Douglas AD Skyraider: 1950s - 1 July 1959: USN: VA-25 “Tigers” Strike Fighter Squadron: Douglas AD Skyraider F9F Cougar FJ-3 Fury: 1962–1963: USN: VA-52 “Knightriders” Strike Fighter Squadron: Douglas AD Skyraider F9F ...
In 1940, the US Navy proposed to the US Congress the development of a lighter-than-air station program for anti-submarine patrolling of the coast and harbors. Moffett Field's Hangars Two and Three (Mountain View, California) were built at the beginning of WWII for a coastal defense program. These hangars are still among the world's largest ...
ZP-32 was established at Naval Air Station Moffett Field in January 1942, initially without any blimps. It was formed from two TC-class blimps and two L-class blimps, based at Naval Air Station Moffett Field in February. Two TC-class blimps (TC-13 and TC-14) in storage deflated at Lakehurst, were shipped by rail, deflated, to NAS Moffett Field ...
The hangars were constructed when the US Navy established ten lighter-than-air bases across the United States during World War II as part of the coastal defense plan. Five of the original seventeen of these wooden hangars still exist: one at Moffett Field, one at Tustin, California, one at Tillamook, Oregon, and two at Lakehurst, New Jersey. [9]
On 15 November 1939 the 20th moved to Moffett Field, California; it stayed there less than one year, and moved again on 9 September 1940 to Hamilton Field, also in California. At Hamilton the group changed aircraft once again, this time to the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. This was the top-of-the-line pre-World War II pursuit fighter. It had a range of ...
NAS Trinidad, also called NAS Port-of-Spain, was a large Naval base built during World War II to support the many naval ships fighting and patrolling the Battle of the Atlantic. The fighting in the area became known as the Battle of the Caribbean. Naval Base Trinidad was located on the Island of Trinidad in West Indies of the Caribbean Sea.
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 ...