NASA Crows Landing Airport (IATA: NRC, ICAO: KNRC, FAA LID: NRC)[2] is a private use airport owned by the NASA Ames Research Center, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northwest of the central business district of Crows Landing, in Stanislaus County, California, United States.

Pilots of F4F Wildcats, TBF and TBM Avengers trained here first in Link and Panoramic trainers, then eventually in actual planes.

By the year 2000, the Navy had completed an EPA cleanup project and transferred most of the facilities to Stanislaus County with plans to convert it into a business park.

As of 2013, the County (with NASA partners) had cleared all of the abandoned and decaying building structures save for the historic control tower.

[1] In late 1942, the Navy chose a site in the San Joaquin Valley, 71 miles southeast of NAS Alameda, for an auxiliary air station.

The site was located near the agricultural community of Crows Landing, with a 1940 population of 363, which consisted of a gas station, general store, and a freight train stop.

VRE-1 was one of the Navy's three evacuation squadrons that transported wounded men from combat areas in the South Pacific to the various naval hospitals in the U.S.

Crows Landing's isolated location prompted the Navy to run ten liberty buses a day to Modesto and Patterson.

In recent years, the Navy maintained a permanent detachment at the field that supplied crash equipment and refueling services for naval aircraft from the stations in the area.