We got an e-mail from Jose Hurtado, Ph.D:
"I think NAS Fort Lauderdale Museum is a very important an interesting place in Fort Lauderdale and I want to congratulate its founder, Mr. Alan McEhiney and the Historic Association people for such excelent work!
However I'd also like to add a comment in order to complement this historical achievement:
It is correct to say that the Naval facilities were abandoned in 1946, after World War II, but 10 years later Col.(R)Robert "Bob" Young and his wife with some retired army officers founded a military High school named "Florida Military Academy", which occupied the naval facilities for more than 10 years (...or more), probably from 1950 to 1963...
I know about this situation because I was a student at that school between 1956 and 1959, and remember to have lived and attended classes in those old barracks for almost three years, whose pictures Mr. Mchiney shows some of them in his excellent book.."
"I think NAS Fort Lauderdale Museum is a very important an interesting place in Fort Lauderdale and I want to congratulate its founder, Mr. Alan McEhiney and the Historic Association people for such excelent work!
However I'd also like to add a comment in order to complement this historical achievement:
It is correct to say that the Naval facilities were abandoned in 1946, after World War II, but 10 years later Col.(R)Robert "Bob" Young and his wife with some retired army officers founded a military High school named "Florida Military Academy", which occupied the naval facilities for more than 10 years (...or more), probably from 1950 to 1963...
I know about this situation because I was a student at that school between 1956 and 1959, and remember to have lived and attended classes in those old barracks for almost three years, whose pictures Mr. Mchiney shows some of them in his excellent book.."
After the war the buildings at the naval air base were converted into a Military Academy High School. They were later to be all torn down, except for one: building #8, what is now known as the historic "Link Trainer Building" that houses the current NASFL Museum. The Museum building was later moved to its current location on Perimeter Rd.
