In March 2009, U. S. Navy Reserve Airborne Early Warning Squadron 77 ( VAW-77 ) relocated its six E-2C aircraft from NAS Atlanta, GA to Belle Chasse.

Like NAS Atlanta, that school moved around 1958 to land donated by Dobbins, and is now known as Southern Polytechnic State University.

The Navy's website for NAS Atlanta was deleted soon after the transfer.

NAS Atlanta was originally located at what is now Peachtree-DeKalb Airport in Chamblee, until it moved in 1958.

NAS Atlanta was the home of Marine Air Group ( MAG ) 42, Carrier Air Wing Reserve Twenty, three Navy squadrons ( flying the F / A-18, E-2 and C-9 aircraft ), two Marine Corps squadrons ( flying the F / A-18 aircraft, and AH-1W and UH-1 helicopters ) as well as several other commands.

In 2005, DoD recommended NAS Atlanta for closure and its constituent units relocated or consolidated at other installations.

Like NAS Willow Grove and NAF Washington / Andrews AFB, NAS Atlanta offers superb convenience and thus recruiting opportunities to the services ’ reserve components, at some cost in operational flexibility.

NAS Atlanta is also the site of the World Famous Navy Lake Site, a military recreation area open to active, reserve, and retired military, located in a park on Lake Allatoona reservoir.

NAS Atlanta closed its doors on 26 September 2009 in a base closing ceremony.

In 2007, the state of Georgia announced that it had acquired the NAS Atlanta property as the new headquarters for the Georgia Army National Guard.

Aerial view of NAS Oakland in the mid-1940s

Aerial view of NAS Whidbey Island in the mid-1940s

Aerial view of NAS New York in the mid-1940s

Aerial view of NAS Jacksonville in the mid-1940s

Aerial view of NAS Pensacola in the mid-1940s.

NAS San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the mid-1940s

Aerial view of NAS Patuxent River in the mid-1940s

Aerial view of NAS Banana River in the mid-1940s