Naval Air Station Rockaway

It was established on transferred municipal property in 1917 during American involvement in World War I.

On November 27, 1918, the NC-1 took off from the station with 51 people aboard, establishing a new world record for persons carried in flight.

The D-6 was built by the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a design[4] somewhat different from the other five D-class airships.

Operations were moved across the inlet to a hangar in the municipal Floyd Bennett Field, which itself was sold to the federal government in 1941 and made Naval Air Station New York.

In turn, NAS New York was decommissioned in 1972 and is now a part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, as are Fort Tilden and Jacob Riis Park.