The history of Sand Point Naval Air Station begins in 1920, in the wake of World War I. Seeking to build an airbase in Puget Sound, King County Commissioners and U.S. Navy officers broke ground on a site at Sand Point, near Lake Washington, then outside Seattle city limits., What was unusual about the origins of this Navy Base was that local citizens and King County were the advocates to develop this base, lobbying the federal government, leasing and then donating the land to the Navy for its use to train pilots and airmen for combat missions., NAVAL STATION PUGET SOUND AT SAND POINT HISTORY Len, Sen. Wesley Jones presents the deed to lands the United States Naval Air Station from King County, Wash., to the United States Navy, March 8, 1926, in Washington., Situated five miles northeast of downtown Seattle on the Sand Point peninsula, the 89-acre landmark district encompasses the two parts of the original Naval Air Station site containing intact resources directly associated with the former Naval Air Station operation., Not only is Sand Point a testing site for some of the original Boeing models, but in 1924, it was also the beginning and ending point of the first flights around the world. It hit its peak military activity in 1945 when the base hosted more than 4,600 Navy, Marine Corps, and civilian folks — and achieved its landmark status in 2011 ., Sand Point looks like a lovely mixed-use park for playing soccer or birding but - what history is so important here that it’s worth saving? Seattle’s first airport and the site of the first flight around the world..