At A Glance - Facilities

Hangar 1

• Construction completed in 1921 at a cost of $4 million. 

• Home for every rigid airship in the Navy. The Hindenburg just fit in the hangar with 18 in clearance bow and stern. 

• 211,000 sq ft of floor space. (Interior Dimensions:807 ft. X 262 ft.) The hanger is 224 ft. high

• National historic monument. 

• The Ocean County Career and Technical Institute, constructed within Hangar 1, is leased to the state for $1 per year, a partnership and lease arrangement unique in the federal government. 

• The CALASSES (Carrier Aircraft Launch and Support Systems Equipment Simulator) located in Hangar 1 is a 1/4-scale model carrier deck used for training Navy aircraft operators. It’s equipped with models of launch, recovery and control tower equipment and actual lighting configurations.

Aircraft Platform Interface Lab 
The new 66,000 square foot lab (ribbon cutting was June 02) consolidated fourteen labs previously housed in outdated buildings and was constructed to provide state-of-the-art facilities for API Technologies 

Engineering Buildings

• Bldg 562 - 100,587 sq ft - program management, ALRE and SE engineering and acquisition. 

• Bldg 596 - 42,650 sq ft - ILS, In-Service Engineering. 

• The base is fully networked, connected by fiber-optic cable. 

Manufacturing and Prototyping 
240,000 sq ft of industrial floor space - capabilities include milling, turning, drilling, shaping, grinding, boring, engraving, fabrication, welding and heat treating. Provide rapid prototyping and manufacturing capability for the arresting system cross deck pendants. Artisans offer proof of principle manufacturing for ALRE/SE designs with emphasis on producibility. They manufacture, repair and overhaul critical ALRE systems where no commercial capability exists and furnish full quality assurance service. The fabric facility is the sole fleet source for emergency arrestment barricades.

Hangar 5 and 6
Largest freestanding single arch structures in the world, built entirely of wood - each has 241,000 sq. ft. of floor space. (Interior size: 1,026 x 235 ft.) The hangers are 183 ft. high. Hangar 5 is occupied by the Army’s Communications and Electronics Command - Electronics Integration Directorate/Airborne Engineering Evaluation Support Activity, a tenant activity. Hangar 6 contains a 100,000 sq ft support equipment staging facility.

Track Site
Three active sites; 1 to 1 1/2 mile long. A jet car pushes a weighted deadload or airframe down the track into the arresting gear or barricade under test.

Jet Car

• The jet car develops 42,000 pounds thrust - employs airframes or deadloads up to 100,000 lbs - can attain energies in excess of 140 million ft lb and speeds up to 250 kts. 

• The remote location provides a safety and noise buffer. Runaway deadloads have harmlessly wandered off into the woods. 

• The site has been used by the Air Force, FAA and foreign governments. 

• The primary Navy use is wire rope acceptance tests, barricade testing and arresting gear evaluation and verification. 

Catapult Test Complex

• Both the TC13 Mod 0 and TC13 Mod 2 catapults can launch aircraft or deadloads up to 100,000 lbs with speeds up to 185 kts.

• This is the only facility in the world with deadload launch capability. 

• The TC13 Mod 2, developed at Lakehurst, will save the Navy up to $1/2 billion per ship over the life cycle. The lower pressure demands from the ship's reactor lengthens the time necessary between reactor recoring.

• The site steam plant can produce up to 138,000 lbs per hour. 

• The site has been used to conduct tests for the Army, Air Force, NASA, and private industry (McDonnell-Douglas, U.S. Rubber).

Runway Arrested Landing Site (RALS)
The RALS is the only site in world that allows high-speed roll-in and fly-in arrestments on shipboard and landbase arresting gear. It provides 3,000+ feet prior to arrestment and an 8,000 feet safety buffer after arrestment. 

Jet Blast Deflector (JBD) Site
This is only site in the world that can conduct aircraft acceptance tests that demonstrate compatibility with the JBD.

Elevated Fixed Platform (EFP) 

• The EFP is a 60 x 85 ft steel and concrete deck built atop a 25 ft high building to provide realistic ground effects. 

• It has an installed Recovery Assist Securing and Traversing (RAST) system and a hangar face with a VLA lighting package and deck markings. 

• It's used to train LSOs , to evaluate RAST service changes, to conduct engineering investigations and to evaluate small ship/ helicopter Visual Landing Aids and marking and lighting. 

• It's the only shorebased facility where RAST/SH60-B operations can be conducted. 

• Building 551 - ATE software support 

• 17,000 sq ft of floor space- 6 computer rooms with raised flooring and ducted air above and below.