U.S. Navy Ewa Mooring Mast Air Field, USS Akron, U.S.S. Los Angeles, Airships Hawaii

Very RARE Photo of the ORIGINAL

1925 Navy Mooring Mast Airfield. (Photo taken around 1938) This airfield was primarily designed for the US Navy Airship Program and had a wide circle around the field which marked where a tethered airship could swing in the wind like a flag. The white airstrip was made of coral rock (abundant in Ewa). This is one of the EARLIEST of ALL Hawaii Airfields!

The plane is a Pan American Boeing B-314 Clipper flying

over the Keawe forest and Sisal plants near the airfield.

In the background is Ewa Mill, a very large Sugar Plantation

and the little community of Ewa and Ewa Station.

The line is the Oahu Railway & Land Company track- which

STILL EXISTS TODAY thanks to some very SMART

PEOPLE that put it on the National Historic Register!

TODAY- the US NAVY is BLOCKING the placement

Of Ewa Field on the National Historic Register!