Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
1940s aerial view of Outlying Landing Field Whitehouse in Florida. An outlying landing field (OLF) is a satellite airfield, associated with a seaborne component of the United States military. [1]
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 ...
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°.
Was: Dade County Airport (1945-1955) Was: Homestead Air Force Base (1955-1994) Now: Homestead Air Reserve Base (1994-Present) (IATA: HST, ICAO: KHST, FAA LID: HST) Miami Army Airfield (36th Street Airport), Miami; Joint Civil/Army Airfield use Also used by: Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command HQ 45th Bombardment Group (I Bomber Command) (1942)
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The airport was designated a "reliever airport" for general aviation overflow from Jacksonville International Airport. In the mid-1980s, Grumman St. Augustine was tasked with a major military contract for "re-winging" nearly all A-6 Intruder carrier-based medium attack bombers for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps .