36°13′44″N76°08′06″W / 36.229°N 76.135°W / 36.229; -76.135 (Weeksville Dirigible Hangar)
The Weeksville Dirigible Hangar (former Naval Air Station Weeksville) is an airship manufacturing, storage and test facility originally built by the United States Navy in 1941 for servicing airships conducting anti-submarine patrols of the US coast and harbors. It is located on the former Naval Air Station Weeksville in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, approximately 2 miles southeast of the present day Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City.
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Bay, northwest of San Jose. Formerly a US Navy facility, the former navalairstation is now owned and operated by the NASA Ames Research Center. Tenant...
coast. A close by naval facility, NavalAirStationWeeksville, served as a blimp base from 1941 to 1957, while another former navalair facility remains...
airfields are designated as NavalAirStations or NavalAir Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF)...
Anti-submarine warfare, and training missions in tandem with NavalAirStationWeeksville, a lighter-than-air airship facility approximately two miles to the southeast...
Lakehurst. ZP-12 at NavalAirStation Lakehurst ZP-15 at NavalAirStation Glynco ZP-14 at NavalAirStationWeeksville ZP-11 at NavalAirStation South Weymouth...
TCOM Corp. located on the former NavalAirStationWeeksville in Elizabeth City, North Carolina 1987 – buys radio stations in Sacramento and Chicago 1987...
early 1945. In late April 1945, K-89 and K-114 left NAS Weeksville (now Coast Guard AirStation Elizabeth City) in North Carolina and flew a southern route...
replacement blimps were sent from Weeksville, North Carolina, to the Bermudas and Lajes before going on to Craw Field (Kenitra Air Base) at Port Lyautey. The...
K-134) with flight and maintenance crews from WeeksvilleNavalAirStation in North Carolina to NavalAirStation Port Lyautey, French Morocco. Their mission...
historic Weeksville Dirigible Hangar) for development of lighter-than-air technologies and testing airships, located at the former NavalAirStation Weeksville...
wooden hangars included: the NavalAirStations at South Weymouth, Massachusetts (1 hangar); Lakehurst, New Jersey (2); Weeksville, North Carolina (1); Glynco...
Rohwer, J. & Hummelchen, G. (1992). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-105-X. Silverstone, Paul H. (1968). U.S. Warships...
the Patrol Plane Base and Coast Guard AirStation, Elizabeth City, N.C., and the NavalAirStation, Weeksville, N.C. In 1959, in honor of Levy's "dedication...
(NASA-LaRC) (29 June 1965). "Static Inflation Test of 135 ft Satellite In Weeksville, North Carolina". Internet Archive. Retrieved 15 March 2020. Harrison...
Wellman, Judith. Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York (2014) Wilder, Craig Steven. A Covenant with Color: Race and...
blimps were sent from Weeksville, North Carolina to the Bermudas and Lajes Air Base before going on to Port Lyautey. In 1945, a new air base was constructed...
to announce The Division Bell and the tour was held at a former US NavalAirStation in North Carolina, in the US. A purpose-built Skyship 600 airship...
Office of Air Force History (1978). "The U.S. Air Service in World War I: Volume I". Internet Archive. U.S. Air Force. OCLC 1975157. Office of Air Force History...
Naval aviation Naval Flight Officer United States Marine Corps Aviation United States Naval Aviator Naval aircrewman VBF Notes from RAF and Fleet air...
1984. In all, ten Skyship 600s were built: two at Cardington; three at Weeksville, near Elizabeth City, North Carolina; one at Sydney; two in Japan; and...