Naval Air Facility Adak (IATA: ADK, ICAO: PADK, FAA LID: ADK), was a United States Navy airport located west of Adak, on Adak Island in the U.S. state...
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The city is the former location of the Naval Air Facility Adak, NAVFAC Adak. Adak is located on Kuluk Bay, on Adak Island, in the Andreanof Islands group...
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Administration. On 31 March 1997, the Navy closed Adak Naval Air Facility. A large portion of the former military facility's property was transferred to the Aleut...
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Alaska, Fairbanks. "PUBLIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT NAVAL AIR FACILITY, ADAK (a/k/a ADAK NAVAL AIR STATION) ADAK, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS CENSUS, ALASKA". atsdr.cdc...
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Adak Army Airfield, original name of the airport (1942–c.1943) Davis Army Airfield, a later name of the airport (c.1943–1950) Naval Air Facility Adak...
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at the U.S. Air Force's Kadena AB, Japan; NAF Adak, Alaska; and NAF Midway northwest of Hawaii. There are also a number of former Naval Air Stations that...
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List of United States Navy airfields (redirect from List of US Naval Air Stations)
"Naval Support Activity Souda Bay – Air Operations". Commander, Navy Installations Command. US Navy. Retrieved 6 July 2021. "Adak Former Naval Air Facility"...
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Box S Naval Air Facility Adak Naval Base Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, Naval Base, submarine base, PT boat base (Battle of Dutch Harbor) Finger Bay, Adak Island...
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Air Force Base (realigned as Kelly Field) Letterkenny Army Depot McClellan Air Force Base Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne Naval Air Facility Adak Naval...
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Ritchie Kelly Air Force Base Letterkenny Army Depot McClellan Air Force Base Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne Naval Air Facility Adak Naval Air Station South...
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Berlin) (1947–1990) Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland (Closed 2006) Narsarsuaq Air Base, Greenland (Closed 1958) Sondrestrom Air Base, Greenland, (Closed...
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Guard gradually took over Kodiak naval base. By 1997 other aging WWII naval installations in Alaska, such as Adak Naval Air Station, were closed. U.S. Navy...
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Scott Carpenter (category United States Naval Aviators)
missions from Naval Air Station Atsugi in Japan during the Korean War. On his second deployment, forward-based at Naval Air Facility Adak, Alaska, he flew...
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Japan from there. The establishment of Adak Army Airfield (Code Name A-2) in August 1942 gave the U.S. Army Air Forces a forward base from which to attack...
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VUP-19 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
VP-19 deployed to NAS Kodiak, Alaska, with detachments at Naval Air Facility Adak and Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska. In five brief months, the...
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Distant Early Warning Line (category Royal Canadian Air Force)
Island, on 1 July 1958. Planes flew from Midway Island to Naval Air Facility Adak on Adak Island (in the Aleutian Island chain) and back, non-stop. Its...
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Cape Air Force Base also known as Fort Glenn Army Air Base, is a site significant for its role in World War II fighting, operating alongside Naval Air Facility...
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List of United States Marine Corps installations (redirect from List of United States Marine Corps air stations)
List of United States Air Force installations List of United States Space Force installations Camp Allen/Elmore Marine Barracks Adak Brush, Peter. "Big Guns...
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VP-17 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
1961: VP-17 deployed to NAS Kodiak, Alaska, with a detachment at Naval Air Facility Adak. During this period the squadron participated in tests of the SSM-N-8...
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Alaska and Arctic Operations. The 13th Naval District and Kodiak Naval Station were slated for closure. NAS Adak will be moved to caretaker status. The...
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installed terminating at Naval Facility Adak in the Aleutians. The system terminating at Cape May was rerouted to a new Naval Facility Lewes, Delaware, with...
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Prince George Airport (category Royal Canadian Air Force stations)
George and on to Kodiak (Naval Air Station Kodiak), Dutch Harbor (Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base), Adak (Naval Air Facility Adak)and back in periods when...
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VP-22 (1943–1994) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
higher airspeed and altitude. 19 Nov 1958: The squadron deployed to Naval Air Facility Adak, Alaska. During deployment the size of the squadron was increased...
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Harbor and Adak Island resulted in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. But because United States Naval intelligence had broken the Japanese naval cypher code...
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Patrol Wing (redirect from Fleet Air Wing)
Commander, Fleet Air Western Pacific (COMFAIRWESTPAC). At that time it relocated to Naval Air Facility Misawa which is located aboard Misawa Air Base in Northern...
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VP-50 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
1983: VP-50 deployed to NAF Misawa, Japan, with a detachment at Naval Air Facility Adak, Alaska, relieving VP-40. During the deployment the squadron conducted...
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John Herrington (category Naval Postgraduate School alumni)
the Northern Pacific-based from Naval Air Facility Adak, Alaska and one to the Western Pacific-based from the Naval Air Station Cubi Point, Philippines...
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VP-48 (1946–1991) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
deployed to Naval Air Facility Adak, Alaska. The squadron earned a Meritorious Unit Citation for its performance in tracking Soviet naval units during...
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VP-3 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
1943: The squadron deployed again to Naval Air Facility Adak, Alaska, and conducted searches from Umnak to Adak, with numerous missions to Japanese-held...
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VP-65 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
1993: Two VP-65 aircrews deployed to Naval Air Facility Adak, Alaska, the last operational detachment to fly from the air station before it went into caretaker...
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