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The U.S. Naval Air Station, Sunnyvale Historic District, also known as Shenandoah Plaza is a historic district located on 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The National Parks: Index 2009–2011 . Part 2 )〕 at Moffett Field, California. The Hangars #1, #2, and #3, and the adjacent Shenandoah Plaza are inclusively designated as the historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔(US Naval Air Station Sunnyvale, CA Historic District (Moffett Field) Santa Clara County, California - National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary )〕 The Historic District was nominated by the US Navy and accepted into the National Register of Historic Places on Feb. 24, 1994. The Historic District was conveyed to NASA on July 1, 1994 as part of a federal military base reduction and closure action. The Historic District consists of: * 124 Acres * 22 Contributing Buildings / Structures * 9 Contributing Houses * 3 Monuments * Total floor area of historic buildings is 1,498,000 ==History== In 1931, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1,000 acre (4 km²) parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly $480,000 raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County,〔McDonell, Michael G., "Moffett Field ...a long way from Macon", ''Naval Aviation News'', Chief of Naval Operations and the Naval Air Systems Command, Arlington, Virginia, March 1971, Volume 52, page 36.〕 then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS ''Macon''. The location proved to be ideal for an airport, since the area is often clear while other parts of the San Francisco Bay are covered in fog. This is due to the Coast Range to the west which blocks the cold oceanic air which is the cause of San Francisco fog. The base, originally named Airbase Sunnyvale CAL (it was thought that calling it Mountain View would cause officials to fear airships colliding with mountainsides),〔Daniel DeBolt, "Moffett Field's serendipitous 75th anniversary," ''Mountain View Voice'', Nov. 28, 2008, p. 6〕 was accepted by the U.S. Navy on 12 February 1931 and dedicated NAS Sunnyvale on 12 April 1933. After the death of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, who is credited with the creation of the airfield, in the loss of the USS ''Akron'' on 4 April 1933, the airfield at Naval Air Station Sunnyvale was named Moffett Field on 1 September 1933. After the ditching of the USS ''Macon'' on 12 February 1935, and until 1942, the Navy transferred claimancy of Moffett Field to the War Department and the installation was under the control of the U.S. Army Air Corps. On April 16, 1942, control of the facility was returned to the Navy and it was re-commissioned as NAS Sunnyvale. Four days later it was renamed NAS Moffett Field. From the end of World War II until its closure, NAS Moffett Field saw the development and use of several generations of land-based anti-submarine warfare and maritime patrol aircraft, including the Lockheed P2V Neptune and Lockheed P-3 Orion. Until the demise of the USSR and for some time thereafter, daily anti-submarine, maritime reconnaissance, Fleet support, and various training sorties flew out from NAS Moffett Field to patrol along the Pacific coastline, while Moffett's other squadrons and aircraft periodically deployed to other Pacific, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf bases for periods of up to six months. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shenandoah Plaza National Historic District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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