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Tin City Long Range Radar Site is a United States Air Force radar station. It is located 106.3 miles (171.1 km) west-northwest of Nome, Alaska . It is the former Tin City Air Force Station (AAC ID: F-04, LRR ID: A-11).
The destruction of the Iraqi Air Force was probably one of the most complete such actions in the history of military aviation. Although most of the former "Super Bases" have been de-militarized and today are abandoned facilities being reclaimed by the desert, a few were refurbished and were subsequently used by Army, Air Force and Marine units.
The site remediation of the radar and support station was carried out by the 611th Civil Engineering Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base, and remediation work was completed by 2005. The airport remains open to support Air Force operations around Point Barrow and to support contractor access to the military radar site.
Post-World War II radar stations included those of the 1948 "five-station radar net" and the Lashup network completed in 1950, followed by the "Priority Permanent System" with the initial (priority) radar stations completed in 1952 [3]: 223 as a "manual air defense system" [4] with Manual ADCCs (e.g., using Plexiglas plotting boards as at the 1954 Ent Air Force Base command center for ADC.) [3 ...
Fort Yukon Long Range Radar Site is a radar site of the United States Air Force.It is located 1.6 miles (2.6 km) east-southeast of Fort Yukon, Alaska.. It was the former Fort Yukon Air Force Station (AAC ID: F-14, LRR ID: A-01), a General Surveillance Radar station.
The intermediate sites were closed in 1963 due to the advancements in radar technology. Point Lay was closed in 1994 and Wainright in 2007 due to soil erosion & budget concerns. The closed sites were remediated by the Air Force around 1998, removing all abandoned military structures and returning the site to a natural condition.
Fortuna Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 4.2 miles (6.8 km) west of Fortuna, North Dakota . It was closed in 1979 as a radar station, remaining as a Long-Range Radar (LRR) facility until 1984.
The 762d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron (AC&W Sq) began operations [4] with a pair of World War II Air Transportable Search and Detection AN/CPS-3 radars at North Truro in 1951 and assumed radar coverage previously covered by a temporary Lashup Radar Network site at Otis Air Force Base (L-5), and initially the station functioned as a ...