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St. Augustine's airport becomes a Navy gunnery station
St. Johns County, Florida
Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The city bought 276 acres at Araquay Park in 1933 for eight thousand dollars and put in a field. After Pearl Harbor the Navy took the whole thing, renamed it Naval Auxiliary Air Station St. Augustine and ran it as a gunnery satellite for the much larger station at Jacksonville, adding runways, hangars and a tower and training patrol bomber crews. The Navy gave it back to the city in May 1946, and Fairchild opened an aircraft plant on it in 1955.
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