Oceana NAS
Throughout the 1940's and 50's NAS Oceana was constructed and expanded in the Virginia Beach area to become the largest Naval Air Station(NAS) in the world. It has four main operational runways, three measuring 8,000 feet in length and one measuring 12,000 feet are designed for high-performance aircraft. NAS Oceana's mission is to train and deploy the Navy's fighter/attack squadron, the F/A-18 Hornets. Pilots stationed at NAS Oceana fly approximately 219,000 training operations each year.
Virginia Beach, VA
Virginia Beach is best known as a major resort, with miles of beaches and dozens of hotels, motels, and restaurants. It is also home to several state parks, several long protected beach areas, three military bases, a number of large corporations, and two universities, Virginia Wesleyan College, a private liberal arts college, and Regent University, a private university founded by Pat Robertson which is almost totally dedicated to graduate education. Robertson's TV talk/news show, The 700 Club, is produced by the Christian Broadcasting Network, whose headquarters and principal studios are in the city and adjacent to the Regent campus. The city is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world and as the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the longest bridge-tunnel complex in existence.
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