Moffett Federal Airfield, also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County, California, United States, between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale. On November 10, 2014, NASA announced that it would be leasing 1,000 acres (400 ha) of the airfield property to Google for 60 years.
Moffett Federal Airfield
Established in 1931, Moffett Field in Sunnyvale/Mountain View has played a strategic role in Silicon Valley's evolution, researching and developing key technologies, first for the U.S. military and then for NASA. Today it hosts the Ames Research Center.
Aerial view of NAS Moffett Field and NASA Ames Research Center in 1982
Aerial view of Moffett Field from the east, with under-construction (in 2019) Google buildings visible on both sides of Stevens Creek beyond the field
Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California.
Image: SJ skyline at night horizontal
Image: Stanford University Main Quad May 2011 001 (cropped)
Image: Friday May 10, 130 365 (8761584621)
Image: Almaden Lake Park 1.2 (cropped)
