Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Beverly
Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Beverly was a United States Navy facility located in Beverly, Massachusetts operational from 1942 to 1945. It existed as an auxiliary air facility of Naval Air Station Squantum.
History
The facility was commissioned on 15 May, 1943 and upgraded the field with a new asphalt runway. The Navy built a control tower, a barracks, and other structures and consisted of four officers and sixty enlisted men. The field provided touch and go practice for students at Naval Air Station Squantum as well as Fleet Air Arm student pilots. Planes from Coast Guard Air Station Salem also used the facility for maritime patrol, as well as a detachment from VS-31, which flew anti-submarine patrols with Douglas SBD-5 aircraft.[1]
Today, the field operates as Beverly Municipal Airport.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Massachusetts Naval Air Bases, Coast Guard Bases, Military & Auxiliary Air Fields 1923-1945". Massachusetts Aviation Historical Society. 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
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