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Brooklyn CGAS occupies part of the historic Floyd Bennett Field site in Brooklyn, New York, a former municipal airport and naval air station that has since become a Coast Guard air station operating helicopters only. Its long disused fixed-wing runways remain a striking feature for simulator pilots exploring the New York City area, offering a tangible link to the field's aviation past.
Brooklyn CGAS sits on the site of the former Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York City, a field whose lineage runs from Barren Island Airport through Floyd Bennett Field and New York Naval Air Station to its present role as a Coast Guard air station. For a simulator pilot, it is a field of real character: a set of long, wide former military-length runways surviving within the fabric of a major city, now used purely as a Coast Guard helicopter base rather than for fixed-wing traffic.
The field lies in Brooklyn, within the wider New York City area, at the site historically known as Barren Island. No specific airspace classification or surrounding controlled-airspace detail is given in the available sources.
The field retains three physical hard-surfaced runway pairs from its fixed-wing era. Runway 06/24 is 6015 feet long. Runway 02/20 is 5074 feet long. Runway 12/30 comprises a shorter, lit 2142-foot surface on the 12 heading and a longer, lit 4991-foot surface on the 30 heading. Field elevation is 13 feet.
The site began as Barren Island Airport before development into Floyd Bennett Field, later serving as New York Naval Air Station. Once its runways were closed to fixed-wing aircraft, the field became a base for helicopter units of the Coast Guard and the New York City Police Department, operating as Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn. A 1979 USGS topographic map labelled the site as a naval reservation, and the 1979 New York Terminal Control Area chart marked CGAS Brooklyn as heliport-only. Photographs from the 1940s show the air station's helicopter training group operating Sikorsky R-4 helicopters, including several hovering in formation in front of the CGAS Brooklyn hangar.
Brooklyn CGAS continues to function as a Coast Guard air station, with the field long designated for helicopter operations only following the closure of its runways to fixed-wing traffic. For simulator pilots, the location has attracted scenery development: it appears in X-Plane's airport gateway as Brooklyn CGAS/Floyd Bennett Field, and historic New York City enhancement scenery packages for older simulator platforms have also included the field alongside other Manhattan-area landmarks.
