CROWS LANDING, Calif. — In the middle of the Central Valley, a military airfield sits frozen in time.
The Crows Landing Naval Auxiliary Landing Field once served as a World War II training base for Navy pilots. For decades, military aircraft roared across its runways before NASA later used the facility for aircraft testing and emergency landing research.
But by the mid-1990s, the base had become outdated and the Navy decommissioned the field…