Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale

Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale
NAS Ft. Lauderdale training squadron markings of FT-28, Taylor's Avenger

Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale was an airfield of the United States Navy just outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1942 the navy selected Merle Fogg Airport in Fort Lauderdale to expand into a naval air station for both pilot and enlisted aircrew training (i.e., gunners, radiomen) in Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers flown by carrier-based US Navy flight crews and by land-based US Marine Corps flight crews ashore.[1] Additional facilities were used to train aircraft maintenance and other ground crew support for the TBF and TBM series aircraft.[1] Among the Avenger pilots who graduated NAS Fort Lauderdale was former President George H. W. Bush, from a class in 1943.[1][2]

Several airfields in the immediate vicinity of NAS Fort Lauderdale were commissioned as Navy satellite or outlying fields. Several of these fields continue in operation today as civilian airports, such as Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport and North Perry Airport.

Training was difficult and dangerous. From 1942 through 1946, 94 trainees lost their lives while serving at the Naval Air Station. Fourteen of those men made up a five-aircraft flight, now known as Flight 19, that disappeared while on a routine training mission on December 5, 1945.[1] The need to train Avenger crews having passed, the station was decommissioned after 1946 and the facility was conveyed to the government of Broward County, Florida for use as a civilian airport. Today the facility is known as Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Historical Association website discussing history of the facility: During 1942 the Merle Fogg Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was selected by the United States Navy to be improved into a naval aviation facility.
  2. ^ Florida military bases, from FSU Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale was one of the bases where former President George Bush received his training.

Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum

Coordinates: 26°04′18″N 80°09′04″W / 26.0717°N 80.1511°W / 26.0717; -80.1511



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