Marine Corps Installations National Capital Region
Condition
Operational
Website
www.quantico.marines.mil/mcaf/UnitHome.aspx
Site history
Built
1931 (1931)
In use
1931 – present
Garrison information
Current commander
Lieutenant Colonel Robert S. Vuolo
Garrison
Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1)
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: NYG, ICAO: KNYG, FAA LID: NYG, WMO: 724035
Elevation
3.3 metres (11 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
02/20
1,295.4 metres (4,250 ft) Asphalt
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]
Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico (MCAF Quantico) (IATA: NYG, ICAO: KNYG, FAA LID: NYG) is a United States Marine Corps airfield located within Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. It was commissioned in 1919 and is currently home to HMX-1, the squadron that flies the President of the United States. The airfield is also known as Turner Field, after Colonel Thomas C. Turner, a veteran Marine aviator and the second director of Marine Corps Aviation,[2] who lost his life in Haiti in 1931.
On 12 August 2010, a new Quantico air facility to accommodate maintenance and storage of HMX-1 helicopters was dedicated in honor of Marine One founding commander Col. Virgil D. Olson (1919–2012).[3]
^"Airport Diagram – Quantico MCAF (Turner Field) (KNYG)" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
^"Directors of Marine Corps Aviation, 1919-1962". History of Marine Corps Aviation. AcePilots.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
^"Virgil D. Olson, Marine combat pilot in three wars, dies at 93". Washington Post. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
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