Naval Air Station Corpus Christi (IATA: NGP, ICAO: KNGP, FAA LID: NGP) is a United States Navy naval air base located six miles (10 km) southeast of the central business district (CBD) of Corpus Christi, in Nueces County, Texas.

A naval air station for Corpus Christi had been proposed since the mid-1930s, and the city's congressman, Richard M. Kleberg, supported it.

(The Kleberg family and Roy Miller both supported Vice President John Nance Garner's quest for the 1940 presidential nomination.)

A board found that a lack of training facilities capable of meeting an emergency demand for pilots constituted a grave situation.

Future President George H. W. Bush was the youngest pilot to receive his wings at NAS Corpus Christi in June 1943.

On June 27, 2002, Alfred Bourgeois, a long-haul truck driver who often took his family with him on work trips, was making a delivery at NAS Corpus Christi.

[6][7] The shooter was later identified as Adam Alsalhi, a 20-year-old Corpus Christi resident born in Syria, who had expressed support for ISIS and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

[10] 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.

The station employs officer, enlisted and civilian personnel serving in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the military services of numerous NATO/Allied/Coalition partner nations.