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A month later, the ZP-32 patrol unit was formed at Naval Air Station Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California from two TC and two L airships. An airship training base was also created at Moffett Field. The US Navy command, remembering the airship anti-submarine success from World War I, immediately requested new modern anti-submarine airships.
Horse Farm Naval Outlying Landing Field had a 1,500-foot diameter paved hexagonal landing mat built by the Navy, in Garden Grove, California at on 288 acres of land. Part of the site is now a US Army & Army Reserve center Garden Grove and the rest is commercial real estate.
The Beginning of Airships in the Bay Area, Beginning of Air Base Sunnyvale California. Looking at 1,700 acres of broccoli, cauliflower and hay fields, Laura Thane Whipple, a local real estate agent then selling a ranch in Sunnyvale, recalled reading of the need for a 'metropolitan area' dirigible base on the west coast. The photos she took the ...
Airship Ventures' Zeppelin NT named Eureka arrives at Moffett Federal Airfield on October 25, 2008 Airship Ventures Inc. was a private company that offered sight-seeing rides (which the company called "flightseeing") in a 12-passenger Zeppelin NT out of a World War II United States Navy hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield near Mountain View, California.
The L-8 airship control car is on display at the museum. [24] [25] Airship L-8 crashed after its crew, for some unknown reason, departed the airship on 16 August 1942 off the coast of San Francisco, California. Two N-class blimp control cars are on display at the Museum. The K-47 Control car on static display at the Museum. [26]
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 ...
During WWII, a 22-year-old airman from California sank in a plane crash off the coast of Malta. Eighty years later, divers located the wreckage and recovered his remains.
In 1942, NAB San Pedro, now NAS Terminal Island, was designated for equipping and performing flight-tests on the large number of military aircraft fabricated at nearby plants in Southern California: Lockheed, Douglas Aircraft Company and & Vultee Aircraft. To facilitate delivery of these aircraft, the U.S. Navy established the Naval Air Ferry ...