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Sunday, October 3rd 2010, 10:03pm

US Navy Airship Facilities

Bases 1940

Atlantic Coast
South Weymouth NAS, Weymouth MA: 2 hangers, ZRS-15, ZRS-27
Lakehurst International Airfield/Lakehurst NAS, Lakehurst NJ: 3 hangers, ZRS-24
Cape May NAS, Cape May NJ: 1 hanger, no craft assigned, reserve hanger
Weeksville NAS, Weeksville NC: 2 hangers, ZRS-14, ZRS-16
Charleston NAS, Charleston SC: 2 hangers, ZRS-9, ZRS-18
Orlando NAS, Orlando FL: 4 hangers: ZRS-4, ZRS-7, ZRN-1, ZRS-11
Richmond NAS, Richmond FL: 2 hangers, ZRS-19, ZRS-23

Gulf Coast
Hitchcock NAS, Hitchcock TX: 1 hanger, ZRS-22
Houma NAS, Houma LA: 1 hanger, ZRS-21

Pacific Coast
Kodiak NAS, Kodiak AK: 1 hanger, no craft assigned
Everett NAS, Everett WA: 2 hangers, ZRS-12, ZRS-13
Tillamook NAS, Tillamook OR: 2 hangers, ZRS-10
Sunnyvale NAS, Sunnyvale CA: 3 hangers, ZRS-6, ZRS-17
Tustin NAS, Tustin CA: 2 hangers, ZRS-26, ZRAP-1
Hoyt Field NAS, San Diego CA: 4 hangers, ZRS-5, ZRN-2, ZRS-25

Pacific
Ewa Field, Ewa HI: 1 hanger, no craft assigned
Pago Paga NAS, Pago Pago AS: 1 hanger, no craft assigned

Most of the hangers are of wood construction. The Alaskan, Hawaiian and Samoan facilities are for transient airships and they currently do not have assigned ships, though that may change in the future. Plans for a second Hawaiian hanger are in the works. The Cape May facility is largely unused and may be torn down in the near future since it is too small for all but the training airships and blimps.

Production Facilities 1940
Akron OH Airdocks 3 hangers
Miami FL Airdocks 2 hangers
Los Angeles CA Airdocks 2 hangers
San Diego CA Airdocks 3 hangers
Fort Worth TX Airdocks 3 hangers
Charleston SC Drydock Modified Class 5 Dry Dock (Dual Use)

Akron and Los Angeles are the primary civilian production facilities for the "Clipper" type airships. Eight Clippers are in service by 1940, flying trans-oceanic routes to Europe, Atlantis, South America and South Africa, the Philippines-Japan route, and to Australia via Hawaii. Civilian ports are at Lakehurst, Miami and Los Angeles.
The Charleston facility was created as part of Admiral Moffett's plan for using existing drydocks to build airships. It remains the only such facility since the Navy saw it as possibly interfering with new warship construction, especially the Montana class Battleships. The Charleston dock is ill suited to large warship construction due to the shallow waters of Charleston harbor and the Cooper River.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "CanisD" (Oct 3rd 2010, 10:27pm)