Naval Air Station Cecil Field or NAS Cecil Field was a United States Navy air base, located in Duval County, Florida. Prior to October 1999, NAS Cecil Field was the largest military base in terms of a
F/A-18 Hornets from Carrier Air Wing Seventeen returning to NAS Cecil Field in 1994
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An FJ-3 from VF-62 at NAS Cecil Field, 1956
Two F8U-1s of VF-62 over NAS Cecil Field, 1962
Naval Air Station Jacksonville is a large naval air station located approximately eight miles south of the central business district of Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
Naval Air Station Cecil Field
…17,200 acres (70 km2) were transferred to the civilian sector in the form of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, while the remainder was transferred to Naval Air Station Jacksonville. As directed by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) and the U.S. Congress pursuant to BRAC 1993 and BRAC 1995, NAS Cecil Field was…
An aerial view of NAS Jacksonville during 2018
Naval Air Station Jacksonville
Captain Charles P. Mason (left) with President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the commissioning ceremony of the station on October 15, 1940.
Aerial view of NAS Jacksonville in the mid-1940s