ICAO Code | KNGP/NGP |
Last Validated | 11-2024 |
City | Corpus Christi |
Position | 27°41'34"N 097°17'25"W |
Runway(s) | 04/22, 13L/31R, 13R/31L, 18/36 |
Elevation | 18 ft |
NAS Corpus Christi was commissioned on May 5, 1941. The first flight training started on May 5, 1941. In 1941, 800 instructors provided training for more than 300 student pilots a month. The training rate nearly doubled after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. By the end of World War II, more than 35,000 naval aviators had earned their wings there. Corpus Christi provided intermediate flight training in World War II, training naval pilots to fly SNJ, SNV, SNB, OS2U, PBY, and N3N type airplanes. In 1944 it was the largest naval aviation training facility in the world. The facility covered 20,000 acres (81 km2), and had 997 hangars, shops, barracks, warehouses and other buildings. Future President George H. W. Bush was the youngest pilot to receive his wings at NAS Corpus Christi in June 1943. NAS Corpus Christi also was home to the Blue Angels from 1951 to 1954. It also served as a Project Mercury Tracking station in the early 1960s. Training Air Wing FOUR consists of four squadrons. VT-27 and VT-28 handle primary training in the T-6B Texan II, VT-31 and VT-35 provide advanced training in the twin engine T-44C Pegasus aircraft along with the T-54A Marlin II. Other aircraft found at NAS Corpus Christi include the P-3 Orions and General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drones operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. NAS Corpus Christi is also home to the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD). In support of the base's training mission are three nearby outlying landing fields owned by the Navy: Naval Outlying Field Waldron, Naval Outlying Field Cabaniss, and Naval Outlying Field Goliad.
Corpus Christi NAS has four runways which are all used throughout the day. On the Northeast are large platforms with shelters for all based aircraft. Access is limited due to the position onto the water.
Access to Corpus Christi NAS is via Interstate Highway 37 towards Corpus Christi and then TX-358 towards Corpus Christi NAS.
In the morning, this T-44C was shot with 500mm from spot 2 while driving a bit into the wasteland with a pick up truck.
From spot 1, the later it gets, the better the shot swill be. This is a nice banking T-6B shot with 500mm.
314.300 | Clearance Delivery |
257.850 / 118.700 | Ground |
340.200 / 134.850 | Tower (north) |
360.200 / 125.525 | Tower (south) |
343.750 / 128.675 | Departure |
343.750 / 120.900 | Approach |
348.725 / 120.900 | Approach (HI-TACAN 13R) |
259.300 / 127.500 | Approach (HI-TACAN 31L) |
290.900 / 127.900 | ATIS |
346.650 | Base Ops |
339.700 / 139.000 | Army Ops |
VT-27 | T-6B (G-xxx) |
VT-28 | T-6B (G-xxx) |
VT-31 | T-44C/T-54A (G-xxx) |
VT-35 | T-44C/T-54A (G-xxx) |
161036/G-712 | T-34C, mid of the field at the Catalina Club |
161185 | UC-12B, mid of the field near CNATRA |
163130/4 | F/A-18A, Blue Angels c/s, mid of the field near CNATRA |
176455 | T-45A, mock-up, mid of the field near CNATRA |
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