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Naval Air Station Hitchcock was a Naval Air Station built by the United States Navy during World War II to accommodate lighter-than-air aircraft, more commonly known as blimps. It was located in the small town of Hitchcock, Texas, about fifteen miles (24 km) northwest of Galveston. Construction began in 1942 and the base was commissioned on May ...
At 6:03 a.m., on August 16, 1942, L-8 – having been assigned to Airship Patrol Squadron 32 – lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, on a coastal antisubmarine patrol. Its scheduled route would have taken the airship over the Farallon Islands, Point Reyes, and the locality of Montara before circling back towards the Golden Gate Bridge.
According to the Swick, one other airplane, serial number S-5, was built in 1956. Six aircraft, S-2, S-3, S-4, S-6, and S-7, were built in 1957, with two of them, S-2 and S-3, being shipped to Buenos Aires, Argentina. [7] After building eighty airplanes, the Silvaire Aircraft Company closed down. The last airplane was completed on [8] May 17, 1960.
The plant itself consisted of about 85 federal buildings that stretched over 153 acres of land in Dallas and Grand Prairie, Texas. [ 4 ] From August 1941 to August 1945, North American Aviation leased the government owned contractor-operated plant and produced 30,000 aircraft for the Navy and Army.
Naval Air Station Chase Field is a former naval air station located in unincorporated Bee County, Texas, near Beeville. [1] It was named for Lieutenant Commander Nathan Brown Chase, [2] [3] Naval Aviator #37, who died in 1925 while developing carrier landing techniques for the U.S. Navy.
A search team investigating the deadly crash of a U.S. military aircraft in the sea off Japan last week has found wreckage and the remains of five missing crew members, the Air Force said Monday ...
The cause was found to be: “The faulty execution of an engine-out approach.” Delta Flight 1141 Delta Air Lines Flight 1141, a Boeing 727 flying between Dallas-Fort Worth and Salt Lake City on ...
The team found a plane but it turned out to be a military aircraft. Last winter Kozar searched the sonar survey again and found another anomaly, which the team discovered last month was likely the ...