Moffett Federal Airfield
Moffett Federal Airfield, also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County, California, United States, between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: joint civil-military airport in California
- Also known as: “KNUQ”, “Moffett Field”, and “NUQ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ames Research Center and Hangar One.
Ames Research Center
Research institute
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Ames Research Center, also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics laboratory.
Hangar One
Hangar
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.
NASA Gift Shop in Silicon Valley
Tourism office
Photo: Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The NASA Ames Visitor Center is a visitor center at the entrance of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. The center has the following exhibits: The gift shop sells space and NASA-related memorabilia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mountain View and Sunnyvale.
Mountain View
Photo: Baltakatei, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mountain View in California is located in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Mountain View is one of the major cities that make up Silicon Valley, and has many notable Silicon Valley companies either headquartered there or with a large presence.
Sunnyvale
Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0.
Sunnyvale is a city in the South Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. Sunnyvale was ranked the 5th safest city in the United States in its size category for 2004.
Alviso
Suburb
Photo: Vlad Butsky, CC BY 2.0.
Alviso is a district of San Jose, California, located in North San Jose on the southern shores of San Francisco Bay. Originally an independent town, founded in 1852, today Alviso is San Jose's only waterfront district, primarily residential in nature, with several Silicon Valley tech companies and recreation-oriented businesses.
Moffett Federal Airfield
- Categories: historic district and transportation
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.41689° or 37° 25′ 1″ northLongitude
-122.04802° or 122° 2′ 53″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)Operator
NASA Ames Research CenterIATA airport code
NUQICAO airport code
KNUQFAA airport code
NUQOpen location code
849VCX82+QQOpenStreetMap ID
way 648903253OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
Discover Moffett Federal Airfield from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Moffett Federal Airfield” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Aèrodrom Federal de Moffett”
- Cebuano: “Moffett Federal Airfield”
- Chinese: “莫菲特联邦机场”
- Chinese: “莫菲特聯邦機場”
- Czech: “Airbase Sunnyvale CAL”
- Czech: “Moffett Federal Airfield”
- Czech: “Moffett Field”
- Czech: “NAS Moffet Feild”
- Czech: “NAS Sunnyvale”
- Dutch: “Moffett Federal Airfield”
- Dutch: “Moffett Field”
- French: “aérodrome de Moffett Federal Afld”
- French: “Moffett Federal Airfield”
- French: “NUQ”
- German: “Moffett Federal Airfield”
- Hebrew: “תחנת האוויר הימית מופט”
- Hungarian: “Moffett szövetségi repülőtér”
- Indonesian: “KNUQ”
- Indonesian: “NUQ”
- Japanese: “モフェット・フィールド”
- Japanese: “モフェット・フェデラル飛行場”
- Japanese: “モフェット連邦空港”
- Japanese: “モフェット連邦飛行場”
- Japanese: “モフェット飛行場”
- Persian: “فرودگاه صحرایی فدرال موفت”
- Russian: “Федеральный аэродром Моффетт”
- Slovenian: “Moffett Federal Airfield”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo Federal de Moffett”
- Spanish: “KNUQ”
- Spanish: “NUQ”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи саҳро фидирол муфт”
- Urdu: “موفئٹ فیڈرل ایئرفیلڈ”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hangar 3 and NASA Ames Fire Department.
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