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Parties, field trips, camps, and birthday celebrations are held at the facility. The NPS and Aviator formed a partnership in 2003, and the facility opened in 2006. [1] By combining several of Floyd Bennett Field's hangars, they created one of the largest sports complexes in the country and the largest in New York. [2]
In 1996, Arnie Migliaccio suggested the creation of a group of volunteers, working as part of the National Park Service's Volunteers-In-Parks program, to restore aircraft on Floyd Bennett Field. The project began two years later in Hangar B on the east side of the airport and the volunteers eventually became known as "angels". [1] [2] [3]
Floyd Bennett Field was New York City's first municipal airport, built largely in response to the growth of commercial aviation after World War I. [11] [12] During the 1920s, air travel in Europe was more popular than in the United States because, although Europe had a surplus of airplanes, the United States already had a national railroad system, which reduced the need for commercial aircraft.
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Floyd Bennett Field; G. Goodyear Airdock; Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar; H. Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base; Hangar One (Los Angeles, California)
Floyd Bennett Field, a decommissioned airfield with a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places, also hosts the Historic Aircraft Restoration Project (H.A.R.P.) in Hangar B where volunteers are working to preserve the park's collection of historic aircraft. Hangar B is open to the public at selected times during the week. [12]
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