Keywords: NAS China Lake NAN7-47.jpg Naval Ordinance Test Station ”NOTS present day Naval Air Station China Lake in the mid-1940s California USA A Grumman F7F Tigercat flies over the air station Adjacent to Ridgecrest in Kern and Inyo Counties northern Mojave Desert U S Navy Naval Aviation News July 1947 http //www history navy mil/nan/backissues/1940s/1947/jul47 pdf s 1940 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Grumman F7F Tigercat Aerial photographs of airports in California China Lake California in the 1940s China Lake Black and white photographs of California Mojave Desert |