Coast Guard Air Station
Address:
Floyd Bennett Field
Gateway National Recreation Area
Brooklyn
Category: Military Sites/Structures
Operational: 1938-1998
Description: One of the Coast Guard's first ten air stations and the city's first municipal airport.
Rotary wing aviation within the Coast Guard was born at Brooklyn, when LCDR Frank Erickson, USCG, and Igor Sikorsky designed and developed the Sikorsky XR-4 helicopter. [Arthur Pearcy, A History of Coast Guard Aviation (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989), p. 88.]
