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NAS Jacksonville is home to Patrol Squadron THIRTY (VP-30), the Navy's largest aviation squadron and the only P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon Fleet Replacement Squadron that prepares pilots, air crew and maintenance personnel for operational assignments in the P-8A, P-3C, and EP-3E Aries in the U.S. Navy, and P-3B, P-3C and similar variants in ...
Naval Station Mayport (IATA: NRB, ICAO: KNRB, FAA LID: NRB) is a major United States Navy base on San Pablo Island [3] in Jacksonville, Florida. It contains a protected harbor that can accommodate aircraft carrier-size vessels, ship's intermediate maintenance activity (SIMA) and a military airfield (Admiral David L. McDonald Field) with one ...
The first lighthouse built by the U.S. on the Florida coast. Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (IATA: NPA, ICAO: KNPA, FAA LID: NPA) (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a ...
Former US Navy airfields located within the United States Installation name Location State End date Notes Ref. Naval Air Facility Adak: Adak: Alaska: 1997 Closed. Transferred to civilian use and became Adak Airport. [57] Naval Air Station Akron: Akron: Ohio: 1958 Closed. Transferred to civilian use and now Akron Fulton International Airport. [58]
Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station (NASP Corry Station), Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC), formerly known as Naval Technical Training Center Corry Station in Florida, United States, is a sub-installation of nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola that hosts several of the Navy's Information Warfare Corps training commands.
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is a base of the United States Navy located adjacent to the city of St. Marys in Camden County, Georgia, on the East River in southeastern Georgia, and 38 miles (61 km) from Jacksonville, Florida.
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]
The U.S. Navy leased what was then known as "Felton's Farm Field" for use as an outlying field of NAS Pensacola from 1933 and it purchased the 866.62 acres (3.5071 km 2) site on 16 August 1939. [5] The base opened for operations on 26 August 1940 [ 6 ] and is named after Lieutenant (junior grade) Richard C. Saufley , USN, Naval Aviator No. 14.