“Naval Air Station Rockaway.” Wikipedia. Accessed 2026-04-17.

Naval Air Station Rockaway Aerial view of NAS Rockaway in 1917 Aerial view of NAS Rockaway in 1919 looking eastward with view of airship hangar. Naval Air Station Rockaway adjoined Fort Tilden on the western portion of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It was established on transferred municipal property in 1917 during American involvement in World …

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 …

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