The United States Aircraft Carrier, Lexington, pays a visit to Port Aransas. On its first visit to port Aransas several thousands of visitors inspected this huge ship… the largest ever to dock in the Port Aransas-Aransas Pass-Corpus Christi areas. The Lexington, based at Pensacola, Florida, periodically sails to this area, standing off Padre Island in the Gulf of Mexico for carrier qualification landings from the three area Naval Air Stations . . . NAS Corpus Christi . . . NAAS-Chase Field, Beeville and NAAS-Kingsville |