Locator: 44842GOOGLE.
Photos and story: link here.
The maps: Google's headquarters -- four miles from the airport. Truly amazing on so many levels.
Summary:
Fascinating.
Distance from Stanford to Moffett Federal Airfield: 8 miles, 14 minutes.
An incredibly interesting story.
Wiki.
Quick:
Who has a 60-year lease?
Who is the operator of Moffett Federal Airfield?
Name a more historically important airfield than Moffett Airfield in the lower 48.
Next up: the venerable C-130. Deliveries first began in 1956 when I was five years old. About the same age as the oil story in North Dakota. Still setting records in 2025.
Started out with a 3-blade, four-turboprop engine. Then the four-blade and most recently, the 8-blade.
The C-130 model during my USAF career? The C-130H.
Wiki.
The newest / current model, the C-130J. Link here to YouTube.
Wiki.
Just released, March 6, 2025. Amazon.
The C-130: the longest continuously produced military aircraft since the first one rolled off the production line in 1954.
Since its introduction into service the C-130 has produced over seventy variants, including gunships, search-and-rescue and scientific research aircraft, and is currently in service with some seventy nations.
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