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Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in North Carolina (11 P) Pages in category "Military installations in North Carolina" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Specialty military air operations are located at this facility, as the installation has two usable landing fields, and plans for a third. The FAA Charlotte Sectional Aeronautical Chart identifies this area as Special Use Airspace R-5301, which is continuously restricted from general aviation traffic from the surface to an altitude of 14,000 feet above Mean Sea Level.
In April 1941, construction was approved on an 11,000-acre (45 km 2) tract in Onslow County, North Carolina. On May 1 of that year, Lieutenant Colonel William P. T. Hill began construction on Marine Barracks New River. The first base headquarters was in a summer cottage on Montford Point and then moved to Hadnot Point in 1942.
The 156th Airlift Squadron (156 AS) is a unit of the North Carolina Air National Guard 145th Airlift Wing. It is assigned to Charlotte Air National Guard Base, North Carolina and is equipped with the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft.
Marine Corps Outlying Field (MCOLF) Camp Davis [2] (FAA LID: 14NC) is a military use airport northeast of the central business district of Holly Ridge, [1] in Onslow County, North Carolina, United States. [3] It is used as a training facility by the United States Marines of Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River.
The North Carolina Air National Guard origins date to 15 March 1948 with the establishment of the 156th Fighter Squadron and is oldest unit of the North Carolina Air National Guard. It was federally recognized and activated at Morris Field, near Charlotte and was equipped with F-47D Thunderbolts.
Weapons & Training Battalion logo. Stone Bay is a satellite facility of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.Based on the south side of Camp Lejeune, it is home to Weapons Training Battalion, which functions as the primary facility for weapons qualifications on Camp Lejeune, having several shooting ranges: three rifle ranges, two pistol ranges, and one long sniper range and the ...
MCOLF Atlantic, an outlying airfield near Atlantic, North Carolina used as an arming and refueling point and base for rotary-wing base supporting training activities in the region. [14] Several former outlying landing fields have been converted to regional airports, such as MCOF Greenville, MCAA Kinston, MCASE near Edenton NC and MCOF New Bern.