Culture · Cubi
Naval Air Station Cubi Point (former)
- Where
- Cubi
- Good for
- aviation history
Building an air station out of the Zambales jungle meant relocating the fishing village of Banicain and moving enough earth to level a mountain into the bay, a five-year, roughly 20-million-man-hour project the Seabees finished in 1956. Cubi Point served as the Seventh Fleet's main aircraft repair hub through the Vietnam War and later supported Desert Storm. Its Officers' Club was dismantled before the 1992 handover and rebuilt at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida, as the "Cubi Bar Cafe." The airfield reopened in 1996 as Subic Bay International Airport and still works today; the Cubi Point View Area nearby is listed as a free public lookout over the bay and the old flight line.
Getting there
Working commercial airport, so the historic airfield itself is not a visitor site; the free Cubi Point View Area nearby gives a public lookout over the bay.
Best for
- aviation history
