NASG HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Far from being just a typical local air base, NASG helped shape national and world history. Please see the expanded history page for further information.
Far from being just a typical local air base, NASG helped shape national and world history. Please see the expanded history page for further information.
- US Naval Carrier Pilot Training Command - WWII
- US HQ for Naval and Marine Reserve Aviation Training Commands - Cold War
- Aviation units from all 5 service branches were stationed at NASG: Navy, Marines, Air Force, Army and Coast Guard
- NASG units served from WWII through Desert Storm
- US landing site for returning Vietnam POWs
- Home Base to reservist Weekend Warriors and Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) P-3 Orion patrol squadrons
- Home Base to Naval Reserve Aviation's precision flight team: The Air Barons (1969-1971)
- Staging Area for Chicago Air & Water Shows, Chicago Base for Navy Blue Angels precision flight team
- Pre-WWII = Curtis-Reynolds Airport: Cradle of aviation and testing site for earliest high altitude flight suits, site of 1930 National Air Races and 1933 International Air Races
- NASG/Curtiss-Reynolds distinguished alumni and flyers: Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, General Jimmy Dolittle, Edward "Butch" O'Hare, President George H. W. Bush, President Gerald R. Ford, Admiral Daniel Gallery, Captain Charles Downey (youngest WWII Naval Aviator), Robert Taylor, Ensign Jesse LeRoy Brown (1st African-American Naval Aviator), Astronaut Neil Armstrong (USN Ret.), Astronaut James A. Lovell (USN Ret.)
