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Ford Island NALF is a former US Navy landing field on Ford Island, an islet within Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, that traces its aviation history back to 1918. Today it survives chiefly as a historic aviation site rather than an active civil airfield, retaining two grass runways aligned 04/22. Its setting amid the Pearl Harbor naval base and its links to Luke Field and NAS Pearl Harbor make it a notable stop for anyone interested in the history of naval aviation in Hawaii.
Ford Island NALF sits on Ford Island, a small island within Pearl Harbor near Honolulu on the island of Oahu. It was formerly operated by the United States Navy as an auxiliary landing field and is closely tied to the wider history of Luke Field and Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor. For a simulator pilot, the appeal lies less in current flying activity than in its place at the heart of one of the most historically significant naval aviation sites in the Pacific.
The field lies on Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor, close to Honolulu on the southern coast of Oahu. Its position within the Pearl Harbor naval complex places it amid an area of dense military and civil aviation activity associated with the wider Honolulu airspace environment.
Ford Island NALF has a single physical runway, 04/22, with a grass surface measuring 4,035 feet in length. There is no ILS approach available.
No communications frequencies are published for Ford Island NALF, and there is no instrument landing system associated with the field.
Ford Island was acquired by the United States in several parcels between 1906 and 1918, and an airfield was first constructed there by the Army in 1918 under the name "Joint Services Flying Field," initially home to the 6th Aero Squadron. Navy aircraft began operating from Ford Island in 1919, and the island's Hangar 6 was built in 1922. The airfield subsequently became known successively as Luke Field, then Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor, and later Ford Island Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, reflecting its long and evolving role in American naval aviation in the Pacific.