List of United States Naval Air Stations
A United States Naval Air Station is a military airbase, and consists of a permanent land-based operations locations for the naval aviation division of the United States Navy.
Active U.S. Naval Air Stations
- California:
- Florida:
- Naval Air Station Jacksonville
- Naval Air Station Key West
- Naval Air Station Pensacola
- Naval Air Station Whiting Field (Milton)
- Maryland:
- Mississippi:
- Nevada:
- Texas:
- Virginia:
- Washington:
- Other:
- Naval Air Station Sigonella - Sicily, Italy
U.S. Naval Air Stations consolidated into Active U.S. Naval Stations or Naval Bases (airfield active)
- Naval Station Norfolk - Norfolk, Virginia (former Naval Air Station Norfolk)
- Naval Station Mayport - Mayport, Florida (former Naval Air Station Mayport, former Naval Air Facility Mayport)
- Naval Base Ventura County - Oxnard, California (Naval Air Station Point Mugu)
- Naval Station Guantanamo - Guantanamo, Cuba (former Naval Air Station Guantanamo)
- Naval Station Rota - Rota, Spain[1]
Functioning Reserve U.S. Naval Air Stations
- Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans - Belle Chasse, Louisiana
- Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth - Fort Worth, Texas (former Carswell Air Force Base)
As well as many airports and airbases around the country.
Naval Air Facilities
- Naval Air Facility Atsugi - Ayase, Japan
- Naval Air Facility El Centro - El Centro, California
- Naval Air Facility Washington - Washington, D.C.
- Naval Air Facility Mildenhall - Mildenhall, England
- Naval Air Facility Misawa - Misawa, Japan
- NAF Kadena, Kadena Air Base - Okinawa, Japan
Former U.S. Naval Air Stations consolidated/realigned into other active naval installations (airfield active, partially active or inactive)
- Naval Air Station Anacostia - Washington, DC (realigned as Naval Station Anacostia; runways removed, heliport retained to support HMX-1)
- Naval Air Station Barin Field - Alabama (realigned as Outlying Field Barin)
- Naval Air Station Bronson - Florida (realigned as Outlying Field Bronson)
- Naval Air Station Corry Field - Florida (airfield closed, heliport retained to support Naval Hospital Pensacola; realigned as Naval Technical Training Center Corry Station, then Center for Domain Awareness Corry Station)
- Naval Air Station Ford Island, Oahu, Hawaii, (initially realigned as Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Ford Island, airfield closed following closure of NAS Barbers Point; retained as Navy housing area for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam)
- Naval Air Station Imperial Beach - California (realigned as Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach)
- Naval Air Station Lakehurst - New Jersey (realigned as Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst)
- Naval Air Station Memphis - Millington, Tennessee (realigned as Naval Support Activity Mid-South)
- Naval Air Station Saufley Field - Florida (realigned as Naval Outlying Field Saufley and Naval Education and Training Program Development Center Saufley Field)
Naval Activities with an active airfield
- Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake - Ridgecrest, California
- Naval Support Activity Souda Bay - Chania, Crete
- Camp Lemonnier - Djibouti
- Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren - Dahlgren, Virginia
- Naval Support Activity Naples - Naples, Italy
- Naval Outlying Landing Field (NOLF) Imperial Beach, California
- Naval Outlying Landing Field (NOLF) San Nicolas Island, California
- Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) San Clemente Island, California
- Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) Fentress, Chesapeake, Virginia
- Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) Orange Grove, Texas
- Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii
- Naval Support Facility (NSF) Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)
- Naval Support Activity (NSA) Lakehurst, NJ (part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL))
Former U.S. Naval Air Stations realigned as U.S. Marine Corps Air Stations
- Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
- Transferred to U.S. Marine Corps as Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay
- Naval Air Station Miramar - California
- Transferred to U.S. Marine Corps and realigned as Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
- Naval Air Station Iwakuni Japan
- Transferred to U.S. Marine Corps and realigned as Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni
Former U.S. Naval Air Stations
- United States Naval Air Station Aber Wrac'h - Aber Wrac'h (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Adak - Adak, Alaska
- Naval Air Station Agana - Agana, Guam
- Naval Air Station Akron - Akron, Ohio (now Akron Fulton International Airport)
- Naval Air Station Alameda - California
- Naval Air Station Albany - Georgia (former Turner AFB until 1967, closed 1974)
- United States Naval Air Station Arcachon - Arcachon (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Argentia - Newfoundland
- Naval Air Station Atlanta - Atlanta, Georgia (former tenant activity at Dobbins Air Reserve Base)
- Naval Air Station Barbers Point - Barbers Point, Hawaii (realigned as CGAS Barbers Point)
- Naval Air Station Banana River - Florida (1940–1947) (transferred to the U.S. Air Force and renamed as Patrick Air Force Base, later transferred to the U.S. Space Force and renamed Patrick Space Force Base in 2020.)
- Naval Air Station Bay Shore - Bay Shore, New York (1918)[3][4][5]
- Naval Air Station and Naval Operating Base Bermuda - Southampton Parish, Bermuda, 1941-1970 (subsequently NAS Bermuda Annex)
- Naval Air Station Bermuda - St. David's Island, Bermuda (1970–1995) (former Kindley Air Force Base)
- United States Naval Air Station Bolsena - Bolsena (1918)[2]
- United States Naval Air Station Brest - Brest, France (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Brunswick - Brunswick, Maine
- United States Naval Air Station Castletownbere - Castletownbere (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Cecil Field - Florida (now Cecil Field Airport with tenant Coast Guard Air Facility Jacksonville and Florida Army National Guard Aviation Support Facility #1)
- Naval Air Station Chase Field - Bee County, Texas (now Chase Industrial Park, an uncontrolled airfield primarily supporting Sikorsky Support Services, Inc.; portion of former base under the control of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which operates the Edmundo Mireles Training Academy, as well as two functional prisons on-site)
- Naval Air Station Chatham - Chatham, Massachusetts
- Naval Air Station Coco Solo - Panama[2]
- Naval Air Station Columbus - Ohio (now John Glenn Columbus International Airport)
- Naval Air Station Cubi Point - Philippines
- Naval Air Station Dallas - Dallas, Texas
- Naval Air Station Daytona Beach - Florida (now Daytona Beach International Airport)
- Naval Air Station DeLand - DeLand, Florida (now DeLand Municipal Airport)
- Naval Air Station Denver - Colorado (initially realigned as Buckley ANGB, now Buckley AFB)
- United States Naval Air Station Dunkirk - Dunkirk (1918)[2]
- United States Naval Air Station Eastleigh - Eastleigh (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Ellyson Field - Florida
- Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale - Florida (now Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport)
- Naval Air Station Glenview - Glenview, Illinois
- Naval Air Station Glynco - Georgia (now Brunswick Golden Isles Airport)
- Naval Air Station Greenbury Point (Annapolis), MD 1914-1917 (Became US Naval Radio Station 1918-1999)
- Naval Air Station Green Cove Springs - Florida (now Reynolds Airpark Airport)
- Naval Air Station Grosse Ile - Michigan (now Grosse Ile Municipal Airport)
- United States Naval Air Station Halifax - Halifax, Nova Scotia (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Hitchcock - Texas
- Naval Air Station Hutchinson - Kansas (initially transferred to U.S. Air Force and Kansas Air National Guard as Hutchinson Air National Guard Base, now Sunflower Aerodrome Gliderport)
- United States Naval Air Station Île-Tudy - Île-Tudy (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Keflavik - Keflavik, Iceland (now Keflavik International Airport)
- United States Naval Air Station Killingholme - see RNAS Killingholme (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Kingsley - Klamath Falls, Oregon (transferred to U.S. Air Force and then to the Oregon Air National Guard as Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base)
- Naval Air Station Kodiak - Alaska (realigned as Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak; also functions as Kodiak Airport)
- United States Naval Air Station Le Croisic - Le Croisic (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Lincoln - Nebraska (realigned as Lincoln Air National Guard Base and colocated Lincoln Airport)
- Naval Air Station Litchfield Park - Litchfield Park, Arizona (now Phoenix Goodyear Airport)
- Naval Air Station Los Alamitos - California (realigned as Los Alamitos AAF)
- United States Naval Air Station Lough Foyle - Lough Foyle (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Melbourne - Florida (now Melbourne International Airport)
- Naval Air Station Miami - Florida (realigned as MCAS Miami, then realigned as Coast Guard Air Station Miami as a tenant of Opa-Locka Airport)
- Naval Air Station Midway - Midway Atoll
- Naval Air Station Moffett Field - Mountain View, California (transferred to NASA and redesignated as Moffett Federal Airfield for NASA and the California Air National Guard)
- Naval Air Station Montauk - Montauk, New York[2]
- United States Naval Air Station Moutchic - Lacanau (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station New York - Brooklyn, New York (1941–1971) Floyd Bennett Field (realigned in 1971 as CGAS New York, closed 1999)
- Naval Air Station Niagara Falls - New York (transferred to the Air Force Reserve Command and the New York Air National Guard and realigned as Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station)
- Naval Air Station Pasco - Pasco, Washington (Tri-Cities Airport)
- United States Naval Air Station Paimbœuf - Paimbœuf (1918)[2]
- United States Naval Air Station Pauillac - Pauillac (1918)[2]
- United States Naval Air Station Port Lyautey - Morocco
- Naval Air Station Point Mugu - Point Mugu, California
- Naval Air Station Pu'unene - Pu'unene, Hawaii (1940–1947)
- Naval Air Station Norfolk - Virginia (realigned as Naval Station Norfolk / Chambers Field)
- United States Naval Air Station North Sydney - North Sydney, Nova Scotia (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Oakland - California
- Naval Air Station Olathe - Kansas (now New Century AirCenter)
- United States Naval Air Station Porto Corsini - Port of Ravenna (1918)[2]
- United States Naval Air Station Queenstown - Cobh (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Quonset Point - Rhode Island (realigned as Quonset State Airport with Quonset Point ANGB of the Rhode Island Air National Guard and Quonset Point Army Aviation Support Facility of the Rhode Island Army National Guard as tenant activities)
- Naval Air Station Richmond - Florida
- Naval Air Station Rockaway - Rockaway Beach, Queens[2]
- United States Naval Station Rota - Rota, Cádiz
- Naval Air Station St. Louis - Missouri (realigned as Lambert/St. Louis ANGB, a tenant of St. Louis International Airport/Lambert Field)
- United States Naval Air Station Saint-Trojan - Saint-Trojan (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Sangley Point - Sangley Point, Philippines
- Naval Air Station Sand Point - Sand Point-Seattle, Washington
- Naval Air Station Sanford - Sanford, Florida (closed 1968, now Orlando Sanford International Airport)
- Naval Air Station Saufley Field - Florida (realigned as Naval Outlying Landing Field Saufley and Naval Education and Training Program Development Center Saufley Field)
- Naval Air Station South Weymouth - Weymouth, Massachusetts
- Naval Air Station Squantum - Quincy, Massachusetts
- Naval Air Station St. Simons - Georgia
- Naval Air Station Tillamook - Tillamook, Oregon (now Tillamook Airport)
- United States Naval Air Station Tréguier - Tréguier (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Twin Cities - Minneapolis, Minnesota (transferred to the Air Force Reserve and Minnesota Air National Guard as Minneapolis-Saint Paul Joint Air Reserve Station with Naval Air Reserve Center (now Navy Operational Support Center) Twin Cities as tenant command)
- Naval Air Station Vero Beach - Florida (now Vero Beach Municipal Airport)
- Naval Air Station Weeksville - Elizabeth City, North Carolina
- U.S. Naval Air Station Wexford Ireland --- Wexford, Ireland World War I - Curtiss H-16s - 1918-1919
- U.S. Naval Air Station Whiddy Island Ireland - Whiddy Island (1918)[2]
- Naval Air Station Wildwood - Rio Grande, New Jersey (now Cape May Airport)
- Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove - Horsham Township, Pennsylvania
References
- http://cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnreurafswa/installations/ns_rota.html//
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