Naval Station Norfolk

Naval Station Norfolk
Part of Navy Region Mid-Atlantic
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Various destroyers, replenishment oilers, cruisers, submarines, frigates, aircraft carriers and some other ships and an amphibious assault ship in Naval Station Norfolk. Pictured December 20, 2012.
Coordinates	36°56′42″N 76°18′47″W / 36.94500°N 76.31306°W / 36.94500; -76.31306
Type	Naval Base
Site information
Owner	United States
Operator	United States Navy
Open to the public	No
Site history
Built	July 4, 1917 (July 4, 1917)
In use	1917 (1917)–present
Garrison information
Current commander	CAPT Janet H. Days
Occupants	Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic Commander, Navy Warfare Development Command

Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command. The installation occupies about 4 miles (6.4 km) of waterfront space and 11 miles (18 km) of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell's Point. It is the world's largest naval station, with the largest concentration of U.S. Navy forces through 75 ships alongside 14 piers and with 134 aircraft and 11 aircraft hangars at the adjacently operated Chambers Field.^[1] Port Services controls more than 3,100 ships' movements annually as they arrive and depart their berths.

Air Operations conducts over 100,000 flight operations each year, an average of 275 flights per day or one every six minutes. Over 150,000 passengers and 264,000 tons of mail and cargo depart annually on Air Mobility Command (AMC) aircraft and other AMC-chartered flights from the airfield's AMC Terminal.^[2]