Naval Air Station Rockaway
It featured an improved control car (the "D-1 Enclosed Cabin Car) which had a watertight bottom for landings on water, and internal fuel tanks.
The station was demolished in 1930 to make way for Jacob Riis Park. Operations were moved across the inlet to a hangar in the municipal Floyd Bennett Field, which itself was sold to the federal government in 1941 and made Naval Air Station New York. In turn, NAS New York was decommissioned in 1972 and is now a part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, as are Fort Tilden and Jacob Riis Park.
References
↑ "The First Flight Across the Atlantic", Naval Historical Center. Accessed July 11, 2007. "Soon the NC-l would establish a record by carrying 51 men aloft, including the first deliberate stowaway in aviation history." ↑ NY Times Sept. 1, 1921, Page 2, Biggest Navy Blimp Burns with 3 More ↑ U.S. Navy Goodyear Airship D-6 1921 Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine ↑ Kite Balloons to Airships...the Navy's Lighter-than-Air Experience
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