Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Hyannis

Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Hyannis was a United States Navy facility located in Hyannis, Massachusetts operational from 1942 to 1945. It existed as an auxiliary air facility of Naval Air Station Quonset Point.

History

From 1942 to 1943, the facility was operated by the United States Army Air Forces as Hyannis Army Air Field and operated Douglas B-18 Bolo on anti-submarine patrols under the operational control of Westover Field. In 1943. the United States Navy took control of the facility and trained many aviators.^[1]

v t e Airports in the Cape and Islands Area
Primary	Barnstable Nantucket Provincetown Martha's Vineyard
Military	Joint Base Cape Cod Otis ANGB
General aviation	Cape Cod Chatham Falmouth Katama
Private	Canapitsit Muskeget Island Tuckernuck
Heliports	Brant Point Camp Edwards Cape Cod Canal Cotuit David Libby Falmouth Hospital Fuller House Marstons Mills North Bay North Chatham Seapuit Wayne
Seaplane bases	Cuttyhunk Harbor Long Pond Marstons Mills Woods Hole
Closed	NAS Chatham Clifton Coonamessett Eastham East Harwich Martha's Vineyard NAAS NAAF Hyannis NAAF Nantucket No Man's Land NA Skymeadow Trade Wind

v t e Airports in Massachusetts
Primary	Boston–Logan Hanscom Field Barnstable–Boardman/Polano Nantucket Memorial New Bedford Provincetown Martha's Vineyard Worcester
Reliever	Beverly Lawrence Norwood Memorial
General	Chatham Fitchburg Gardner Great Barrington–Koladza Mansfield Marshfield–Harlow Turners Falls Harriman–West Northampton Orange Pittsfield Plymouth Southbridge Westover Minute Man Taunton–King Westfield–Barnes
Public use	Cape Cod Cranland Falmouth Hopedale Industrial Park Katama Marlboro Merrimack Valley Monponsett Pond Myricks Plum Island Spencer Sterling Tanner–Hiller
Private use	Canapitsit Lake Gardner Metropolitan Muskeget Snow Tuckernuck Ware
Military	Barnes ANGB Joint Base Cape Cod Otis ANGB Camp Edwards Heliport CGAS Cape Cod Westover ARB
Defunct	Acushnet NAAF Beverly Bowles Agawam Bolton Braintree Brockton Boston–Metropolitan NAS Chatham Clark Clifton Coonamessett Crosman USAR Center Fall River Grafton Hatfield–Pilgrim Haverhill–Dutton Haverhill–Riverside NAAF Hyannis Leicester Lowell NTS Marblehead NAAS Martha's Vineyard Moore AAF NAAF Nantucket NAAF New Bedford No Man's Land NAF Oxford Pine Hill Providence–Seekonk Revere Robbins CGAS Salem Saugus NAS South Weymouth Springfield NAS Squantum CGAS Ten Pound Island Tew-Mac Trade Wind Westboro