planning for the area. The act created a new federal agency called the National Capital Transportation Agency (NCTA). However, the 1959 report also called for
Caribous and C-118 Liftmasters operating from mobile casualty staging facilities at medical field stations having operating airfields. In addition, the 834th
funds to purchase the Heckler & Koch-built 416, which uses a gas-piston operating system less susceptible to failure than Colt's gas-operated design. Cox
legislation which both created a new transportation agency and blocked freeway construction. The agency, the National Capital Transportation Administration