The flight from NAS Los Alamitos, California, to Floyd Bennett Field, New York, took 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8. 3 seconds.

:-- from " From Mad Cows to ' Psi-chotic ' Yeast: A New Paradigm in Genetics ," NAS Distinguished Leaders in Science Lecture Series, November 10, 1999.

It operated three aircraft plants, at the Brewster Building in Long Island City, New York, Newark, New Jersey, and, in 1941, in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania, which was then known as NAS Johnsville.

On July 16, 1957, then-Major John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC, set the transcontinental air speed record, flying an F8U-1P Crusader ( BuNo 144608 ) from NAS Los Alamitos, California to NAS New York-Floyd Bennett Field, in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8. 4 seconds.

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

During World War II, the civilian airfield was first leased and then sold to the United States Navy, which subsequently established Naval Air Station New York ( NAS New York ) to host several naval aviation units of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, to include three land-based antisubmarine patrol squadrons, a scout observation service unit, and two Naval Air Transport Service ( NATS ) squadrons ( processing the majority of the aircraft destined for the Pacific Theater ), while still retaining the Coast Guard Air Station as a tenant.

NAS New York aircraft patrolled the Atlantic coastline and engaged German U-Boats, sustaining casualties, though this information was kept from the public at the time.

Throughout the remainder of the postwar period and until the early 1970s, NAS New York-Floyd Bennett Field primarily functioned as a support base for units of the Naval Air Reserve and the Marine Air Reserve.

CGAS Brooklyn continued to operate from NAS New York and the installation also served as a base for units of the New York Air National Guard during the Cold War.

It was the third animated co-production between SNK and NAS, following Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf and Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle.

On 11 October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG's operations, began the first non-stop transatlantic passenger flights, leaving Friedrichshafen, Germany, at 07: 54 on 11 October 1928, and arriving at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 15 October.

* New York Times article on the NAS report

On June 3, 1948 the Red Devils were reactivated as a reserve fighter squadron at NAS Bennet Field, New York, with the name it currently holds ; Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232.

This includes the former NAS Norfolk, Virginia ( now part of NAVSTA Norfolk ), the former NAF Mayport, Florida ( now part of NAVSTA Mayport ), the former NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ( now part of Naval Station Guantanamo | NAVSTA Guantanamo ); and the former NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey ( redesignated as Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst ).

Office of the Chief of Naval Reserve was established as Director of Naval Reserve, with the consolidation of the Navy Air and Surface Reserve headquarters organizations at the Naval Support Activity, NAS New Orleans, Louisiana in April 1973.

The first cohort of Marines paratroopers trained at NAS Lakehurst in New Jersey in October 1940, eventually becoming the 1st Marine Parachute Battalion.

Griffin's book series, The Corps with two supporting characters, Steve Koffler and Lieutenant Macklin passing through the Marine Parachute School at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Airship Patrol Squadron FIFTEEN ( ZP-15 ), a subordinate unit of Fleet Airship Wing ONE at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey was subsequently based at NAS Glynco and was the principal based unit during World War II.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.

Leeward Point Field was constructed in 1953 as part of Naval Air Station ( NAS ) Guantanamo Bay.

Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom was among the command's largest overseas concentrations of forces, with additional forces at bases in North Africa during the 1950s and 1960s in addition to SAC bomber, tanker, and / or reconnaissance aircraft assets at the former Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and at Andersen AFB, Guam, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom and the former NAS Keflavik, Iceland through the 1990s.

After the war, NAS Green Cove Springs was downgraded in status to a Naval Auxiliary Air Station ( NAAS ) as part of the greater NAS Jacksonville complex.

NAS RICHMOND was the second largest airship base in the United States, NAS LAKEHURST being the largest.

NAS RICHMOND was destroyed by a hurricane and fire in September 1945.

The court ruled that EPA ’ s 10, 000-year compliance period for isolation of radioactive waste was not consistent with National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) recommendations and was too short.

He was assigned to Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 129 ( VAQ-129 ) at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, for initial EA-6B Prowler training.

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.

The NAS panel on which Lindzen served says that the summary was the result of dialogue between scientists and policymakers.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ), and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and was named Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society.

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.

Norwegian Air Shuttle ( NAS ) was founded on 22 January 1993 to take over the regional airline services produced by Busy Bee for Braathens in Western Norway.

In 2000, the NAS fleet was expanded to seven Fokker 50s.

After Braathens was bought by Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) in November 2001, NAS attempted to negotiate a deal where they took over the operations on a permanent basis for their own risk.

Following the decision of SAS and Braathens to merge, NAS announced in April 2002 that it was planning to start domestic scheduled services as a low-cost carrier on the most trafficked routes.

Following further flight training at NAS, Pensacola, Florida, he was designated a naval aviator and was sent to the Asiatic Fleet, where he served as commanding officer of the seaplane tender Jason ( AV-2 ) and later, as Commander, Aircraft Squadrons, Asiatic Fleet.

He was then accepted to flight school at NAS Pensacola, where he earned his flight wings on January 17, 1939.

PNAS was established by NAS in 1914, with its first issue published in 1915.

In 1947, Fort Barrancas was deactivated and ownership transferred to NAS Pensacola.

On October 1, 1993, the 96 BW and 463 AW were both deactivated and replaced by the 7th Wing, a former B-52 and KC-135 wing that had been located at the former Carswell AFB which was being realigned as NAS Fort Worth JRB / Carswell ARS as a result of Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) action.

The BRAC commission proposed moving the fighters to Cecil Field, a recently deactivated naval air station located near Jacksonville, Florida if NAS Oceana was not able to meet that and several other conditions.

The senior Navy leadership ultimately expressed disinterest in moving the Master Jet Base back to the Jacksonville area, having only deactivated Cecil Field less than six years earlier and moving all its Atlantic Fleet F / A-18 squadrons from the former NAS Cecil Field to NAS Oceana.