I frequent SJC and see fighters there on occasion. Not common, but not too uncommon.

Its not a Blimp hangar though that what it was used for. It was originally built as a dirigible hangar. A significant difference.

Moffett has a nice museum as well. I'm military, but I'm pretty sure it's open to the public.

These days Hangar One has been stripped of its asbestos skin and is used for Silicon Valley mega-events (amongst other things). It’s a real joy when the FB crowd throws a party complete with laser light show pointing up and out to the east, lighting up the skeleton of the hangar and shining right into the field of view of aircraft coming in on the SERFR arrival. It’s visible from over 100 miles away, and yes, NorCal knows about it.

My dad told me when he was a kid they used to have their regional rubber band powered balsa wood airplane competitions there because of its huge volume of completely still air.

Back in the day we were doing an ‘exercise’ where we’d come back and land after midnight at Moffett. I remember dragging it in with a Tacan Approach.

After 2 nights the base CO pleaded with us to go elsewhere, ended up at Travis. The Prowler has a few nic-names, but quiet was never close to being included, it was LOUD. The CO said he was inundated with noise complaints from those wee hour arrivals.

I guess ‘the sound of freedom’ only carries one so far.

Our loud EC-135s got noise complaints at Key West NAS .... from an Admiral.