Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay

MCAS Kaneohe Bay
Aerial photograph of MCAF Kaneohe Bay.
IATA: NGF ICAO: PHNG FAA LID: NGF WMO: 91176
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	United States Marine Corps
Serves	Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Location	Kaneohe, Hawaii
Built	1939
In use	1939-1949, 1952 - present
Commander	LtCol D. Mark Angersbach
Elevation AMSL	24 ft / 7 m
Website	www.mcbhawaii.marines.mil/...
Map
NGF
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 4/22 7,771 2,369 Asphalt
Sources: Official website and FAA

Kanehoe Naval Air Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
During the Attack on Pearl Harbor, portions of Hangar 1 were destroyed. In 1987, the hangar and five sea plane ramps were designated a National Historic Landmark.
Nearest city	Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii
Coordinates	21°26′45″N 157°46′11″W / 21.44583°N 157.76972°W / 21.44583; -157.76972Coordinates: 21°26′45″N 157°46′11″W / 21.44583°N 157.76972°W / 21.44583; -157.76972
Area	41-acre (17 ha)
Built	1941
Architect	United States Navy
NRHP Reference #	87001299
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 28, 1987
Designated NHLD	May 28, 1987

Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay or MCAS Kaneohe Bay (IATA: NGF, ICAO: PHNG, FAA LID: NGF) is a United States Marine Corps airfield located within the Marine Corps Base Hawaii complex, formerly known as Marine Corps Air Facility (MCAF) Kaneohe Bay or Naval Air Station (NAS) Kaneohe Bay. It is located two miles (3 km) northeast of the central business district of Kaneohe, in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. The airfield has one runway (4/22) with a 7,771 x 200 ft (2,369 x 61 m) asphalt surface.

The United States Army acquired 322 acres (1.30 km²) of the peninsula when President Woodrow Wilson signed executive order 2900 establishing the Kuwaaohe Military Reservation. Little is known about the operations of the fort, however, at the end of World War I, the military property was leased for ranching. In 1939, Kuwaaohe was reactivated, subjected to many name changes to include Camp Ulupa’u, and eventually named Fort Hase.

Prior to and during World War II, Fort Hase grew from a humble beginning as a defense battalion to a major unit of the Windward Coastal Artillery Command. Navy planners began to eye the peninsula in 1939 as the home of a strategic seaplane base. They liked the isolated location, the flat plains for an airfield and the probability of flights into prevailing trade winds. In 1939, the Navy acquired 464 acres (1.88 km²) of the peninsula for use of the PBY Catalina Patrol seaplanes for long-range reconnaissance flights. One year later, the Navy owned all of the Mokapu Peninsula except for Fort Hase.