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February 24, 1994. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The museum reopened in Building 126, a former U.S. Navy recreation center, across the street from Hangar One in April 2005. [3] [6]The museum opened time capsule in April 2007, but most of the contents were damaged by water.
Ames Research Center. 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. That agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel transferred to ...
Hangar No 1 at Lakehurst Naval Airship Station was built in 1921 to house the Navy's future rigid airships. Additional hangars, which housed the USS Akron (ZRS-4) and USS Macon (ZRS-5), exist in Akron, Ohio (the Goodyear Airdock, 1929) and Sunnyvale, California (Hangar One, Moffett Federal Airfield, 1932). The ships were constructed in Akron.
Any window seat. The window seat is my seat of choice. It provides beautiful, relaxing views — which are ideal distractions if you're a nervous flyer. You won't be disturbed by other passengers ...