The Army resisted strongly, as Rockwell Field was a major training airfield for flight cadets, and had been using the field for flight training since 1912.
The Navy wanted the Army out of North Island as it needed to expand NAS San Diego as a training airfield for its growing number of aircraft carrier pilots. Also, in San Diego, the Army and Navy were having jurisdictional issues over Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego harbor, which had both NAS San Diego as well as the Army's Rockwell Field dividing the island. Moffett, who is credited with the creation of the airfield, in the loss of the USS Akron on 4 April 1933, the airfield at NAS Sunnyvale was renamed NAS Moffett Field on 1 September 1933.Īfter the Macon crashed in the Pacific Ocean on 12 February 1935, the Navy considered closing Moffett Field due to its high cost of operations. After the death of Rear Admiral William A. The original station was commissioned on 12 April 1933 and dedicated NAS Sunnyvale. The base was originally named Airbase Sunnyvale CAL as it was thought that calling it Mountain View would cause officials to fear airships colliding with mountainsides. Construction of the original facilities was begun 8 July 1931. The naval air station (NAS) was authorized by an Act of Congress, signed by President Herbert Hoover on 12 February 1931. This is due to the Coast Range to the west, which blocks the cold oceanic air that is the cause of San Francisco fog. The location proved to be ideal for an airport, since the area is often clear while other parts of the San Francisco Bay are covered in fog. In 1930, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly US$480,000 (equivalent to $7,786,135 in 2021) raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County, then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon. 7 Accidents and incidents at or near NUQ.4.5 United States Geological Survey (USGS).4.1 Status of former military buildings.The adjacent NASA Ames Research Center is also home to several wind tunnels, including the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (a National Historic Landmark), and the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex. Seven of the original seventeen of these wooden hangars still exist: two at Moffett Field, two at Tustin, California, one at Tillamook, Oregon, and two at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The hangars were constructed when the US Navy established ten lighter-than-air bases across the United States during World War II as part of the coastal defense plan. Hangar Two and Hangar Three are some of the world's largest freestanding wood structures. In May 2008, The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed Hangar One on their list of America's Most Endangered Places. Hangar One is a Naval Historical Monument, Historic American Engineering Record CA-335, State of California Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks. Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres (32,000 m 2). Hangars One, Two, and Three, and the adjacent Shenandoah Plaza are collectively designated as a National Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to these military activities, NASA also operates several of its own aircraft from Moffett. Until 28 July 2010, the US Air Force's 21st Space Operations Squadron was also a tenant command at Moffett Field, occupying the former Onizuka Air Force Station. Tenant military activities include the 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard, operating the HC-130J Combat King II and HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft, as well as the adjacent Headquarters for the 7th Psychological Operations Group of the US Army Reserve. Formerly a US Navy facility, the former naval air station is now owned and operated by the NASA Ames Research Center. The airport is near the south end of San Francisco Bay, northwest of San Jose. On November 10, 2014, NASA announced that it would be leasing 1,000 acres (400 ha) of the airfield property to Google for 60 years.
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.
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