North Island Naval Base
Naval Base North IslandLe Centre d'apprentissage de la base navale amphibie de l'Université nationale du Nord de l'île de Coronado en Californie.
Navy Airport North Island
San Diego Bay with North Island and the area. The Naval Air Station North Island or NAS North Island (IATA: NZY, ICAO: KNZY, FAA LID: NZY) is situated at the northern end of the Coronado Penninsula at San Diego Bay and is the home base of several United States Navy carrier-operators.
This is part of the United States Navy-Navy Base Coronado (NBC) in San Diego County, California. Commandant of NAS North Island (aka NASNI) is also Commander of Coronado Naval Base (NBC). In this capacity, he command or manage Navy and seven other naval facilities:
Coronado d'Amphibische Marinebasis (NABC) ; Imperialer Randstrand ; Silver Strand Training Complex ; Remote Training Site, Warner Springs ; Mountain Warfare Training Camp Michael Monsoor ; Camp Morena ; et Naval Auxiliary Landing Facility San Clemente Island. NBC, with only its commandos in the greater San Diego area, borders the town of Coronado from the entry to San Diego Bay to the Mexico frontier.
The NAS North Island itself houses 23 flight crews and 80 other rental units and operations, one of which, the Naval Aircraft Depot, is the biggest workplace in San Diego. Two other aerodromes in the Southern California area are also operated by NAS North Island. The Naval Auxiliary Landing Facility (NALF) San Clemente Island, about 70 leagues north-west of San Diego on the Channel Islands, is one of them.
Other is Naval Outlying Landing Field (NOLF) Imperial Beach. NOLF Imperial Beach, formerly an autonomous naval aviation base, is situated in the town of Imperial Beach, on the US-Mexico frontier, 10 nautical leagues southward of NAS North Island. In the 1950s and 60s, the Luftstation was known as Ream Field.
The NAS North Island is similar to a small town in terms of its plant contents and operation. There are large factories, including the Naval Aviation depot with 3,300 civilian population and its own commissar, Navy Exchange, and residential complex. Leisure amenities range from officers, chiefs of staff and registered associations, cinemas, courses, playing fields, tenis, bowling alleys, amusement park and sands.
It has over 230 aircrafts based at its airport, and its quayside is home to two carrier aircraft: The base also houses the only Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles of the Navy, Mystic (DSRV-1) and Avalon (DSRV-2). The North Island is the headquarter of four large army flags: Featuring all the vessels in the harbor, the station's populace is nearly 35,000 militarily engaged, select spare army and civil staff.
Designed for transport to NALF San Clemente Island from the Base Airport. All of these contracts also offer military combat tactics for the United States Defense Department in conjunction with the US Navy and US Marine Corps. Several of these planes are C-26 Metroliner, Learjet and Gulfstream.
Lieutenant Theodore Ellyson, the first pilot of the Navy, and many of his coworkers were already educated on the North Island in 1911. That was only eight years after Orville and Wilbur Wright had flown the first human plane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The North Island was then an unpopulated sandy area.
At the end of the XIX th cent. it was used by the visitors of the Coronado Spa of J. D. Spreckels for horse back rides and huntin. The North Island derives its name from the initial geographical location. It was called North Coronado Island in the 19. cent. because it was divided from South Coronado (today the town of Coronado ) by a flat cove known as Spanish Cove, which was later occupied during the Second World War in 1945[6]. 1886 North Coronado Island and South Coronado were bought by a builder to become a place to live.
South-Coronado, which is not an island, but the terminal stop of a penninsula, which is known as Silver Beach, became the town of Coronado. Luckily for the Navy, North Coronado was never made. Instead, Glenn Curtiss opened a flight academy and leased the land until the beginning of World War I. Curtiss asked both the Army and the Navy to use the land for aeronautical education, with the Navy being the first to open a base in 1912.
But the Navy vacated their base and did not come back for five years, while the army founded a flying academy at the south end of the island in 1913. Marine began with a tented town called " Camps Trouble ". Until 1937, the Navy divided the North Island with the Signal Corps of the US Army, the Air Service and the Rockwell Field of the Air Corps, when the army evacuated the country and the Navy extended its operation to the entire North Island.
1914 the then unfamiliar airplane manufacturer Glenn Martin took off and presented his push plane over the island with a plane that contained the first skydiving in the San Diego area. Further North Island aeronautics landmarks were the first floatplane in 1911, the first air-to-air refuelling and the first non-stop trans-continental mission in 1923.
Charles A. Lindbergh's May 1927 trip from New York to Paris was one of the most celebrated in all time. It was made on 10 May 1927 at Rockwell Field on North Island when Lindbergh began the first stage of his itinerary. Demonstrating the education of naval fighters and aeroplanes, they often flown their planes in formations with bound together blades.
The first commander of the base, Lieutenant Commander Earl Winfield Spencer Jr, USN, added a certain fame to the North Island. The North Island was the most important US base on the continent to support the Pacific Emergency Services during the Second World War. Among these were over a doze of carrier ships, the Coast Guard, the Army, Marines and Seabees.
Coronado became the home of most of the airplane manufacturers and members of the base, which was on duty around the clock. 2. There are three airlines (U.S.S., U.S.S. Nimitz, NAS North Island) offering some of the hottest winters on the west side of the United States.