Floyd Bennett Field
Airport
Floyd Bennett Field...at this airfield. Howard Hughes also used Floyd Bennett Field as the start and finish of his July 1938 record-setting circumnavigation of the globe in ninety-one hours (as depicted in the 2004 film The Aviator ). Media-savvy pilot Roscoe... In this article: Floyd Bennett Field, National Park Service, New York City Police Department, Roscoe Turner, New York City, and California |
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www.washingtonpost.com | December 22, 2006
Concord Jet Moves to Temporary NYC Home
...and the planes were retired from service in 2003. Floyd Bennett Field is named for a pilot who had flown Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a polar explorer, over the North Pole in 1926. It opened in 1931 as New York City's municipal airport and...
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New York Post | 1 day ago
HARP volunteers keep history flying at Floyd Bennett Field
...municipal airport - in their pioneering excursions around the world. "Floyd Bennett Field was a nice jumping-off point for trans-Atlantic flights," Daskalakis explains. Restoration of a vintage-area "Willie Mae" Lockeed Vega - just like...
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New York Times | November 09, 2008
Watch Out for That Stick, Er, Fist: Professional Ice Hockey Bursts Into Brooklyn
...and Howard Hughes. The site was also a busy military hub during World War II, and the many fighter aces who landed at and took off from Floyd Bennett Field provided the inspiration for the nickname of the single-A hockey team that can now...
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BK's National Park
...of the city's very first municipal airport. Among the new programs and exhibits on tap include salutes to world-famous aviators and Floyd Bennett Field luminaries like Howard Hughes, Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart - currently being...
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www.aero-web.org
Famous Aviators of Floyd Bennett Field
... far, one of the most famous aviatrices of Floyd Bennett Field was Amelia Earhart. ... air parade was held at Floyd Bennett Field in memory of Amelia Earhart. ...
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Floyd Bennett
... he took off from Floyd Bennett field on a trip to California, ... Amelia Earhart. Basketball. Charles Lindbergh. Floyd Bennett. Floyd Bennett Field. Google ...
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Kenneth P. Behr
FLOYD BENNETT FIELD. Special Events. Amelia Earhart's Plane - 1937 " ... He is seen here in the photo after his landing at Floyd Bennett. ...
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Flying a kite at Floyd Bennett Field at andamom
... my place after much needed alone time " Flying a kite at Floyd Bennett Field ... site where notable pilots like Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and Howard Hughes ...
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Amelia Earhart News - The New York Times
... Amelia Earhart. Commentary and archival information about Amelia Earhart from ... entertainment complex built on a corner of Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. ...
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Floyd Bennett Field, now defunct as an active airfield, was New York City's first municipal airport. Located in Brooklyn, it was created by connecting Barren Island to a number of smaller marsh islands by filling the channels between them with pumped sand from the water's bottom, and it is now physically part of Long Island. The airport was named after the famed aviator and Medal of Honor recipient Floyd Bennett (a Brooklyn resident at the time of his dramatic death), dedicated on June 26, 1930, and officially opening on May 23, 1931. The IATA airport code was NOP but now uses the FAA Location Identifier NY22 for a heliport operated by the New York City Police Department.
Many of the earliest surviving original structures were included in a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of their significance as among the largest collection and best representatives of commercial aviation architecture from the period, as well as the significant contributions to civil aviation made there. As such, it was included in 1972 as part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, managed by the National Park Service.
- Name:
- Floyd Bennett Field Historic District
- Architect:
- City Department of Docks
- Added to NRHP:
- April 11, 1980
- NRHP Ref Number:
- 80000363
- Built:
- 1928
- Governance:
- National Park Service
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