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36°13′44″N 76°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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Naval Air Station Weeksville

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135°W / 36.229; -76.135 (Weeksville Dirigible Hangar) The Weeksville Dirigible Hangar (former Naval Air Station Weeksville) is an airship manufacturing...

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Moffett Federal Airfield

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Bay, northwest of San Jose. Formerly a US Navy facility, the former naval air station is now owned and operated by the NASA Ames Research Center. Tenant...

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Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity

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coast. A close by naval facility, Naval Air Station Weeksville, served as a blimp base from 1941 to 1957, while another former naval air facility remains...

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List of United States Navy airfields

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airfields are designated as Naval Air Stations or Naval Air Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF)...

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Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City

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Anti-submarine warfare, and training missions in tandem with Naval Air Station Weeksville, a lighter-than-air airship facility approximately two miles to the southeast...

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US Navy airships during World War II

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Lakehurst. ZP-12 at Naval Air Station Lakehurst ZP-15 at Naval Air Station Glynco ZP-14 at Naval Air Station Weeksville ZP-11 at Naval Air Station South Weymouth...

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Westinghouse Electric Corporation

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TCOM Corp. located on the former Naval Air Station Weeksville in Elizabeth City, North Carolina 1987 – buys radio stations in Sacramento and Chicago 1987...

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Naval Station Argentia

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early 1945. In late April 1945, K-89 and K-114 left NAS Weeksville (now Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City) in North Carolina and flew a southern route...

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Lajes Field

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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...

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Airship

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K-134) with flight and maintenance crews from Weeksville Naval Air Station in North Carolina to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco. Their mission...

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List of aerospace flight test centres

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historic Weeksville Dirigible Hangar) for development of lighter-than-air technologies and testing airships, located at the former Naval Air Station Weeksville...

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Hangar

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wooden hangars included: the Naval Air Stations at South Weymouth, Massachusetts (1 hangar); Lakehurst, New Jersey (2); Weeksville, North Carolina (1); Glynco...

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Shenandoah Plaza National Historic District

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Naval Air Station Lakehurst (2), Naval Air Station Moffett Field (2), Naval Air Station South Weymouth (1), Naval Air Station Weeksville (1), Naval Air...

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GN convoys

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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...

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Commodore Levy Chapel

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the Patrol Plane Base and Coast Guard Air Station, Elizabeth City, N.C., and the Naval Air Station, Weeksville, N.C. In 1959, in honor of Levy's "dedication...

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Goodyear Airdock

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Airship hangar Hangar No. 1, Lakehurst Naval Air Station Hangar One (Mountain View, California) Weeksville Dirigible Hangar Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport...

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Project Echo

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(NASA-LaRC) (29 June 1965). "Static Inflation Test of 135 ft Satellite In Weeksville, North Carolina". Internet Archive. Retrieved 15 March 2020. Harrison...

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Brooklyn

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Wellman, Judith. Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York (2014) Wilder, Craig Steven. A Covenant with Color: Race and...

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Portugal during World War II

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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...

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The Division Bell

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to announce The Division Bell and the tour was held at a former US Naval Air Station in North Carolina, in the US. A purpose-built Skyship 600 airship...

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Aviation Act of 1917

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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...

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List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons

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Naval aviation Naval Flight Officer United States Marine Corps Aviation United States Naval Aviator Naval aircrewman VBF Notes from RAF and Fleet air...

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Airship Industries

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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...

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