- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Military and Public Safety, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Treasury Department, Federal & Military Operations
- Completed:
- 1938
Description
A former military facility, the Coast Guard Air Station at Floyd Bennett Field was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds.
“The City of New York under the direction of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, deeded a portion of New York City’s only municipal airport at that time, Floyd Bennett Field, to the Coast Guard air arm on 9 July 1936. The station was constructed at a cost of $399,800.00. Dedication ceremonies were set for 23 April 1938.”
CGAS Brooklyn was decommissioned May 1998.
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 121-BS: Records of the Public Buildings Service: Completion views of federal buildings (prints) alphabetically by state and thereunder by city, to 1966; Box 62. https://www.uscg.mil/history/stations/airsta_brooklyn.aspSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 5, 2017.
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Robert Kingsley
Terry Thompson
Bill Niehaus
US Coast Guard Auxiliary flew missions in fixed wing aircraft from this field from1991 until 1997.
Was Stationed here in 1992-95, RM, had so good me good times, and bad lost lost 2 pilots Ambrose tower
I was there for a short period of time 1993. The deaths of those two pilots still haunts me.
Stationed there from 1965 to late spring of 1966. From there I went aboard CGC Westwind.