Moffett Field, California

E6601

aerospace facility airport former naval air station military airfield

Moffett Field, California is a historic U.S. naval air station and aerospace hub in the San Francisco Bay Area, best known today as the site of NASA’s Ames Research Center.

Aliases (5)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	aerospace facility → airport → former naval air station → military airfield →
contains	Hangar One → Hangar Three → Hangar Two → Moffett Federal Airfield → NASA Ames Research Center →
country	United States →
currentUse	federal airfield → research airfield → technology and aerospace hub →
hasFAAcode	NUQ →
hasFacility	flight simulation facilities → supercomputing center → university-affiliated research facilities → wind tunnels →
hasIATAcode	NUQ →
hasICAOcode	KNUQ →
hasNotableFeature	large rigid airship hangars → proximity to Silicon Valley tech companies →
hasNotableStructure	Hangar One airship hangar →
hasRunway	Runway 14L/32R → Runway 14R/32L →
historicalUse	blimp base → naval air station → patrol aviation base →
locatedIn	California → San Francisco Bay Area → Santa Clara County, California → near Mountain View, California → near Sunnyvale, California →
namedAfter	William A. Moffett →
near	Palo Alto, California → San Jose, California →
operator	National Aeronautics and Space Administration → United States Air Force (historical) → United States Army Air Forces (historical) → United States Navy →
ownedBy	United States government →
partOf	NASA Ames Research Center campus →
runwaySurface	asphalt →
usedFor	aeronautics research → airship operations (historical) → military aviation → research and development → space exploration research →

Referenced by (28)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ames Research Center → Ames Research Center 80-by-120-Foot Wind Tunnel → Hangar Three ("Moffett Field") → Hangar Two ("Moffett Field") → Moffett Federal Airfield → NUQ → Pleiades → Runway 14L/32R ("Moffett Federal Airfield") → Runway 14R/32L ("Moffett Federal Airfield") → Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel → Vertical Motion Simulator →	locatedIn
Hangar One ("Naval Air Station Moffett Field") → Hangar Three ("Moffett Federal Airfield") → Hangar Three ("Moffett Field historic district") → Hangar Two ("Naval Air Station Moffett Field") →	partOf
Runway 14L/32R ("Moffett Federal Airfield") → Runway 14R/32L ("Moffett Federal Airfield") →	isPrimaryRunwayOf
Ames Research Center 40-by-80-Foot Wind Tunnel → Hangar One ("Moffett Field") →	location
NUQ ("Moffett Federal Airfield") →	airportName
Mountain View ("Moffett Federal Airfield") →	borderedBy
Moffett Field, California ("Moffett Federal Airfield") →	contains
NUQ ("Moffett Federal Airfield") →	denotes
William A. Moffett ("Moffett") →	familyName
Moffett Federal Airfield ("Naval Air Station Moffett Field") →	formerName
NASA Astrobiology Institute →	headquartersLocation
KNUQ ("Moffett Federal Airfield") →	ICAOCodeFor
Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) ("Moffett Federal Airfield") →	locatedAt