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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 ...
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 airship hangar for USS ...
The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. It was founded in 1923 and conducts basic scientific research, applied research, technological development and prototyping. The laboratory's specialties include plasma physics, space physics ...
Operation Sea-Spray. Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack. [1][2][3][4]
Based aircraft. 13. Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1] Eddie Andreini Sr. Airfield, officially Half Moon Bay Airport (IATA: HAF, ICAO: KHAF, FAA LID: HAF), is a public airport in San Mateo County, six miles (9.7 km) northwest of Half Moon Bay, California, United States. [1][2] The airport is on the Pacific Coast, south of San Francisco.
July 30, The San Jose Chamber of Commerce acquired a 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) parcel of the Yñigo Ranch bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly $480,000 raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County, [1] then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon. The location proved to be ideal for ...
The airport is located 7 miles (11 km) south of Downtown Oakland and 12 miles (19 km) east of San Francisco, serving the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The airport is owned by the Port of Oakland [2] [4] and has domestic passenger flights to cities throughout the United States and international flights to Mexico, El Salvador, and ...
The United States Navy took over Treasure Island when the exposition ended and rather than continue as an airport, the building became an administration building. The building housed a museum until 1997. In 2011, San Francisco purchased Treasure Island from the U.S. Navy and there are plans to reopen the museum as part of a redevelopment project.