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The new base became the center for experimentation and development of rigid airships for strategic [note 1] and commercial purposes as well as the control station for all Naval lighter-than-air flights. Hangar No. 1 was the first major facility built at Lakehurst to house the huge helium-filled dirigibles. [5]
When the United States Department of Defense announced that Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst (NAES Lakehurst) would be affected by a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action, merging it with two neighboring military bases, McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix, it established Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, the nation's ...
Coordinates (Air Base) (Army Base) (Naval Station): Type: US military Joint Base: Site information; Owner: Department of Defense: Operator: US Air Force: Controlled by: Air Mobility Command (AMC): Condition: Operational: Website: www.jbmdl.jb.mil: Site history; Built: 1916 (as Camp Kendrick) 1917 (as Camp Dix) 1937 (as Fort Dix Airport): In use: 2009 () – present (as Joint Base): Garrison ...
Bases were built on both the East Coast and West Coast of the United States. [6] Lakehurst Maxfield Field in Lakehurst, New Jersey, Six hangars, first built in 1921. Now part of part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst; Naval Air Station Weeksville, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, constructed in 1941. Also known as the TCOM Manufacturing.
October 12 (Lakehurst, New Jersey), USS Macon departs the east coast for its new home base at NAS Moffett Field October 15, The USS Macon completed its maiden voyage across the United States to Sunnyvale, arriving with much fanfare after a 70-hour flight.
Manchester Township is a township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The township is noted for containing the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the site of the infamous Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937.
In November 1947, the Parachute Experimental Division from Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey moved to El Centro. In 1951, the Joint Parachute Facility was established and consisted of the Naval Parachute Unit and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) 6511th Test Group (Parachute). The USAF remained part of El Centro's test organization for the next ...
Location of Ocean County in New Jersey. ... Hangar No. 1, Lakehurst Naval Air Station. May 23, 1968 : N of Lakehurst on CR 547 Manchester Township ...