They helped with the restoration of order following the riots in Los Angeles, participated in Operation Safe Harbor in NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for Haitian migrants, supported relief efforts following Hurricane Andrew in Florida and Hurricane Iniki in Hawaii, and played a significant role in Operation Restore Hope in Somalia and in restoring peace in Kosovo.

NAS is often manufactured as a computer appliance – a specialized computer built from the ground up for storing and serving files – rather than simply a general purpose computer being used for the role.

Following the end of WWII, NAS Glenview discontinued its role as a primary training base and became headquarters for the newly formed Naval Air Reserve Training Command ( NAVAIRESTRACOM ) in 1946.

In November, 1999, NAS Lemoore received its first F / A-18 E / F Super Hornets, which replaced the F-14 Tomcat in fleet service as an air superiority fighter and has assumed, in a different configuration, the role of older F / A-18 Strike Fighters.

The NAS has had different styles of branding during it history to reflect changes in their name and role.

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.

In the 1960s, as the Navy expanded the role of Naval Aviation Observers, later redesignated as Naval Flight Officers ( NFO ), for the next generation of carrier-based multi-crew aircraft, NAS Glynco assumed added responsibility for advanced NFO training.

Fighter Squadron 101 ( VF-101 ) established a detachment at NAS Oceana in its role as the Fleet Readiness Squadron ( FRS )... formerly known as the Replacement Air Group or " RAG "... that trained aircrews and maintainers to operate the Phantom ( at the time, VF-101 operated out of NAS Key West, Florida ).

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.

* NAS, a German GML application schema for exchanging spatial data

During the NAS Key West detachment, Marauders pilots had the opportunity to fly against German MiG-29s.

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.

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

A typical week during the season has practices at NAS Pensacola on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.

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.

* The 1990 videogame James Bond 007: The Stealth Affair featured the " F-19 " as the captured stealth fighter stolen during a testflight at NAS Miramar that ends up in a fictional Latin American country called Santa Paragua, where James Bond is sent to retrieve it.

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.

Nearly 9, 000 aviation cadets for the U. S. Navy, U. S. Marine Corps and U. S. Coast Guard received their primary flight training at NAS Glenview during WWII, which represented over 800, 000 flight hours and over 2 million takeoffs and landings.

Later during the war, NAS Glenview also hosted advanced training in Fleet combat aircraft, primarily for carrier qualification in Lake Michigan aboard the Chicago-homeported training aircraft carriers USS Sable ( IX-81 ) and USS Wolverine ( IX-64 ) of the 9th Naval District Carrier Qualification Training Unit ( CQTU ).

Renamed Coast Guard Air Facility Glenview, the station remained on the base during NAS Glenview's BRAC closure process and consisted of a multipurpose hangar, office facility and public works building.

* Former President George H. W. Bush, received carrier pilot training as a Student Naval Aviator at NAS Glenview during World War II, in August 1943.

* Former President Gerald Ford, served at NAS Glenview from the end of April 1945 to January 1946, during World War II, as the Staff Physical and Military Training Officer.

* Meinhardt Raabe, who portrayed the coroner in The Wizard of Oz, served with the Civil Air Patrol at NAS Chicago / NASGlenview during World War II.

* On 3 March 1991, a U. S. Navy CT-39G Sabreliner crashed into a residential area at Dewes Street during a visual approach to NAS Glenview.

Ships and NAS Ford Island during the Pearl Harbor attack.

However during the course of their training with VF-121 they did get the opportunity to fly against TOPGUN instructors whilst being taught how to operate the F-4 Phantom at NAS Miramar.

TOPGUN provides academics and flight training to each Carrier Air Wing during their Integrated and Advanced Training Phases ( ITP / ATP ) at NAS Fallon which are large scale exercises that can involve as many as fifty aircraft.

The 479th TFW deployed personnel and aircraft to Key West NAS, Florida, in response to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and deployed squadrons frequently to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

Student NFOs ( SNFO ) initially attend the same classes with student naval aviators ( SNA ) during Aviation Preflight Indoctrination at Naval Aviation Schools Command ( NASC ) at NAS Pensacola, Florida.

* Reeves Field at NAB San Pedro, California ( later NAS Terminal Island ), was dedicated during the 1930s.

The growth of NAS Pensacola from 10 tents to the world's greatest naval aviation center was emphasized by then-Senator Owen Brewster's statement: " The growth of naval aviation during World War II is one of the wonders of the modern world.

In 2011, the NAS consulted with numerous police agencies in developing identity card schemes designed to ensure a tolerable environment for autistic individuals during inquiries ; participating agencies included the Wiltshire Police, the Essex Police, the Norfolk Constabulary, the Suffolk Constabulary, and the Cumbria Constabulary.

On June 9, Reagan's casket was removed from the presidential library and driven in a motorcade to NAS Point Mugu in Ventura, California ; it was the same airfield Reagan flew into and out of during his presidency when visiting his California ranch.

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.

At the end of World War II, the NAS ( National Academy of Sciences ) began to advocate better research and development of prosthetics.

After World War II ended, operations slowed at war ’ s end and it was almost certain that NAS Whidbey Island would be earmarked for decommissioning.

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.

By 1941, with the United States ' entry into World War II appearing imminent, it was apparent to the naval leadership in Washington DC that the primary flight training facilities concentrated at and around NAS Pensacola would not be able to accommodate the needed expansion in Naval Aviation.

The orders stated to report for " Class 1 " ( the first class of regular officers sent to NAS Pensacola after the commencement of World War I ), on 15 September 1919.

During World War II, pilots from NAS Brunswick as well as those of the Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arms used the station as a base from which they carried out anti-submarine warfare missions with around-the-clock efficiency.

During World War I, the area now occupied by NAS Jacksonville ... often referred to colloquially as " NAS Jax "... was named Camp Joseph E. Johnston, and was commissioned on October 15, 1917.

Increased training and construction characterized NAS Jacksonville ’ s response to America ’ s entry into World War II.

As the nations of the world moved toward World War II, NAS Pensacola once again became the hub of air training activities.

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 Halifax was established in 1918 in the months following the United States ' entry into World War I.

NAS Halifax was transferred to the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service ( RCNAS ) at the end of World War I and the facility was renamed HMCS Shearwater.