Authorized by the Naval Expansion Act of 1938, Naval Air Station Banana River was commissioned on October 1, 1940 as a subordinate base of the Naval Air Operational Training Command NAS Jacksonville, Florida.

Officers of the Free French Navy trained in PBMs at NAS Banana River at this time.

Various military related activities took place at NAS Banana River, including maritime patrol aviation operations against German U-Boats, air search and rescue operations, patrol bomber bombardier training, seaplane pilot training, and communications research.

NAS Banana River hosted and a major aircraft repair and maintenance facility.

Later in the war, a small detachment of German POWs from Camp Blanding worked at NAS Banana River on cleanup details.

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

NAS Banana River patch

Three months after World War II, on December 5, 1945, NAS Banana River had an ancillary role in the disappearance of Flight 19, a formation of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, which had departed NAS Fort Lauderdale, Florida on a routine over-water training mission.

After sunset on December 5, two PBM Mariner seaplanes from NAS Banana River, originally scheduled for their own training flights were diverted to perform square pattern searches in the area west of 29 ° N 79 ° W / 29 ,-79.

One of these aircraft, a PBM-5, Bureau Number ( BuNo ) 59225, took off at 19: 27 Eastern Time from NAS Banana River, called in a routine radio message at 19: 30 Eastern Time, and was never heard from again.

During investigation by a board of inquiry regarding the entire Flight 19 incident, attention was given to the loss of the NAS Banana River-based PBM.

Several witnesses from both NAS Banana River and other PBM Mariner operating locations were questioned concerning occurrences of aviation gasoline ( AvGas ) fumes in the bilges of PBM series aircraft and associated no smoking regulations, which were reportedly well posted and rigidly enforced aboard all PBMs.

PBM Mariner | PBM-3Cs of Patrol Squadron 201 ( VP-201 ) at NAS Banana River, late 1942

Several of NAS Banana River's original structures, including runway segments, certain hangars, support buildings, seaplane parking areas and seaplane ramps into the Banana River remain part of modern-day Patrick Air Force Base.

NAS Banana River was transferred to the United States Air Force on September 1, 1948 and renamed the Joint Long Range Proving Ground on June 10, 1949.

Glenn returned to NAS Patuxent River, appointed to the Test Pilot School ( class 12 ).

After graduating from TPS in June 1992, he worked as a TA-4J and EA-6B test pilot in Flight Systems Department of Strike Aircraft Test Directorate at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

In 1974, he graduated from U. S. Naval Test Pilot School and was assigned to the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, to work on the A-6E TRAM and Cruise missile guidance systems.

As well as the main base there is a west coast alert base at Travis AFB, California and an east coast alert base at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

The first two squadrons were established in 1968: VQ-4 was initially operating from Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center in Maryland and VQ-3 was initially formed at Agana, Guam but later moved to NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii.

Additionally, DynCorp provides aircraft maintenance support to facilities including the NAS Patuxent River, Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, NASA facilities in El Paso, Texas, Edwards Air Force Base in California, and Robins Air Force Base ( AFB ) in Georgia.

Carpenter was then appointed to the United States Naval Test Pilot School, class 13, at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland in 1954.

) NAVFACs existed in the west at NAS Adak, Alaska ; Pacific Beach, Washington ; Coos Bay, Oregon ; NAVFAC Centerville Beach near Eel River, California ; NAVFAC Point Sur near Monterey, California ; Naval Outlying Field San Nicolas Island, California ; and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington.

He then attended the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

Following graduation from USNTPS, he was test pilot for three years in the Carrier Suitability Branch of the Flight Test Division at NAS Patuxent River.

While at NAS Patuxent River, he was selected for the NASA astronaut program in the third group of prospective Gemini and Apollo astronauts in late 1963.

Designated a Naval Aviator in 1981, his fleet experience in the Navy was at Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 2 ( VQ-2 ) in Rota, Spain, and the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

Following graduation, he was assigned as a test pilot / project officer for Strike Aircraft Test Directorate ( SATD ) at the Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

Selected for test pilot training, he reported to the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland in 1971.

Selected for test pilot training, he reported to the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland in 1976.

He graduated from the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, in June 1974, and was assigned to the Naval Air Test Center's Carrier Suitability Branch of Flight Test Division.

In subsequent assignments, he was attached to VX-5 for the conduct of operational tests of A-6 weapons systems and tactics ; and to the Naval Air Test Center, where upon graduation from the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, he conducted tests of electronic warfare systems in various Navy aircraft.

He next attended the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, completing the Rotary Wing Test Pilot Course in 1974, and was then assigned as an experimental test pilot to the U. S. Army Aviation Engineering Flight Activity at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

From December 1970 to 1971, he attended the U. S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was subsequently assigned in January 1972 as an experimental and engineering test pilot in the flight test division at the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

He graduated from the United States Naval Test Pilot School in 1981, and served at the Naval Air Test Center at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, as the A-6 program manager, X-29 advanced technology demonstrator project officer, and as a test pilot for flight systems and ordnance separation testing on A-6 Intruder and A-4 Skyhawk series aircraft.

From June 1970 to February 1971, he attended the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and upon graduation was assigned as a project test pilot with the Service Test Division at NAS Patuxent River.

* Gordon, R. F., F4H-1 Navy Preliminary Evaluation, Phase I, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, September 1958.

* Gordon, R. F., FJ-4B Fuel Consumption and Performance Report, Flight Test, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 1958.

* Gordon, R. F., F11F Fuel Consumption and Performance Report, Flight Test, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 1958.

Finally, when the user's network access is closed, the NAS issues a final Accounting Stop record ( a RADIUS Accounting Request packet containing an Acct-Status-Type attribute with the value " stop ") to the RADIUS server, providing information on the final usage in terms of time, packets transferred, data transferred, reason for disconnect and other information related to the user's network access.

After NAS Agana was closed in April 1995, GIAA took over the entire airport's operations.

Although NAS Keflavík has closed and the American military has left Iceland, the United States is still responsible for defending its ally and the facilities at Keflavík will still be available, in the event that a " surged expeditionary presence " is deemed necessary.

Transferred to U. S. Navy in 1970, it operated as NAS Bermuda until it was closed in 1995 )

December 23, 2009 marked the last day of Navy Reserve activity at NAS Brunswick when the Navy Operational Support Center lowered the National Ensign and closed its doors for the last time.

During the 2005 round of Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ), it was feared that NAS Pensacola might be closed, despite its naval hub status, due to extensive damage by Hurricane Ivan in late 2004 ; nearly every building on the installation suffered heavy damage, with near total destruction of the air station's southeastern complex.

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