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Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton was a government-owned, contractor-operated facility which had the mission of designing, fabricating, and testing prototype aircraft from 1956 until 1996, located in Riverhead, New York.HistoryAbout 1950, the United States Navy purchased about on the Peconic River by New York Route 25 for the facility. Among the properties purchased was a mansion belonging to the grandson of F.W. Woolworth.The Navy was to build among other things a 10000ft runway. It is labeled on topographic maps as Grumman Peconic River Airport with an FAA code of CTO.The unit is most associated with test, assembly and retrofitting the A-6 Intruder, E-2 Hawkeye, EA-6B Prowler and F-14 Tomcat. Older U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft such as the F9F Panther, F-9 Cougar, and F-11 Tiger were also tested at the facility.The Grumman site consisted of "Plant Six", where final assembly of F-14s, A-6s, EA-6Bs, and E-2Cs took place, and "Plant Seven", Flight Test.During the Space Race, Grumman built a mock up of the lunar surface to test its proposed Lunar Roving Vehicle. Many of the lunar astronauts were said to have visited the plant then.
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