Naval Air Station Pensacola / Maureen Smith Keillor and Richard P. Keillor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keillor, Maureen Smith, author.

Keillor, Richard P., author.

Series:

Images of aviation.

Images of Aviation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Airplanes, Military--United States--History--Pictorial works.

Airplanes, Military.

Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.)--History--Pictorial works.

Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.).

United States. Navy--Aviation--History--Pictorial works.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The world's first naval aeronautical station, Naval Air Station Pensacola is a dynamic and active station today. A sign at the gate of Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) welcomes visitors to "The Cradle of Naval Aviation" - and, indeed it is. It came into being when the USS Mississippi (BB-23) arrived in Pensacola on January 20, 1914, with seven aircraft, nine officers, and 23 men. Today, NASP hosts several schools and several branches of the US military. It is also the home of the Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, as well as the renowned National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM), which displays more than 100 years of naval aviation, from a replica Curtiss hydroplane to the F-14 Tomcat.

Contents:

Introduction: Five flags over Pensacola

The beginning to 1940

World War II

The jet age and the Cold War

The Blue Angels

NAS Pensacola then and now

NAS Pensacola today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439644492

1439644497