Mitchel Air Force Base
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Mitchel Air Force Base, also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States. Established in 1918 as Hazelhurst Aviation Field #2, the facility was renamed later that year as Mitchel Field in honor of former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, who was killed while training for the Air Service in Louisiana.
Looking west in 1968, the airfield is mainly intact.
2006 USGS photo. The remains of runway 05/23 are visible in the center.
2d Fighter Squadron (All Weather) Northrop P-61Bs on parking apron at Mitchel AFB in October 1948
Roosevelt Field (airport)
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Roosevelt Field is a former airport, located in Westbury, Long Island, New York. Originally called the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome, or sometimes Hempstead Plains field or the Garden City Aerodrome, it was a training field for the Air Service, United States Army during World War I.
Nearly a thousand people assembled at Roosevelt Field to see Charles Lindbergh take off in the Spirit of St. Louis, May 20, 1927
Aline Hofheimer (1909–1963) painting a 126-foot fresco representing aviation history in Roosevelt Field, Long Island (c. 1935)