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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramPortrait of Lt. Commander Henry C. Mustin.
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Lt. Commander Henry C. Mustin had the auspicious task of establishing the first Naval Air Station. He was in command of the USS Mississippi bringing the first naval aviation contingent to Pensacola on January 20, 1914. Mustin came ashore and commissioned the Naval Aeronautic Station at the abandoned Pensacola Navy Yard. He later distinguished himself when he became the first aviator to catapult from the deck of a moving ship (the USS North Carolina) in the Gulf. He attained the rank of Captain prior to his death in 1923.
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