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Naval Air Station Kingsville
Summary
Airport typeNaval Air Station
OperatorUnited States Navy
LocationKingsville, Texas
BuiltJuly 4 1942
In useActive
CommanderCAPT Philip L Waddingham
Elevation AMSL50 ft / 15 m
Coordinates27°30′26″N 97°48′35″W / 27.50722°N 97.80972°W / 27.50722; -97.80972
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13L/31R 8,000 2,438 PEM
13R/31L 8,000 2,438 PEM
17L/35R 8,000 2,438 PEM
17R/35L 8,000 2,438 PEM

Naval Air Station Kingsville or NAS Kingsville (IATA: NQI, ICAO: KNQI, FAA LID: NQI) is a military airport located 3 miles east of Kingsville, Texas.

Under the current US Navy organization, NAS Corpus Christi and NAS Kingsville are part of Navy Region South. Unlike some Navy facilities elsewhere in the country, the command relationship remains coherent, as the Region and Center for Naval Aviation Training (CNATRA) leadership structures are essentially identical. NAS Kingsville’s operation is the natural complement of NAS Corpus Christi. NAS Kingsville operates higher performance single engine aircraft, generally over land (distance, rather than safety or capacity concerns, limits Kingsville use of overwater areas.)

Current Operations

Naval Air Station Kingsville is one of the U.S. Navy’s premier locations for jet aviation training. The naval air station’s primary mission is to train tactical jet pilots for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. To accomplish its mission, NAS Kingsville is home to Training Wing TWO and several tenant commands, military as well as civilian, with a total complement of approximately 300 officers, 200 enlisted, 350 civilian personnel, and 625 contract maintenance personnel.

The Operations Department operates the airfield and provides services to support operations of activity, tenant, and transiting aircraft; provides firefighting functions, both structural and fire and rescue; provides air traffic control; operates air terminal; schedules administrative and proficiency flights; repairs and maintains station ground electronics equipment; stores, maintains, and issues assigned ordnance and munitions; operates firing ranges; operates aerial targets, bombing ranges, and auxiliary landing fields.

Tenant Units

  • Training Squadron Twenty-One (VT-21) "Redhawks"
  • Training Squadron Twenty-Two (VT-22) "Golden Eagles"

References

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