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Elliston Ridge Air Station

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History
USAF units and assignments
References

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|name=Elliston Ridge Air Station
|partof= Pinetree Line
|location= Newfoundland, Canada
|coordinates={{Coord|48|37|33|N|053|03|31|W|display=inline|name=Elliston Ridge AS N-22B}}
|image= 642d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron - Emblem.png
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|caption= Emblem of the 642d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
|type=Radar Station
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|built=1957
|builder=United States Air Force
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|used=1957-1961
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|controlledby= Aerospace Defense Command
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|lat_dir=N|lat_deg=48|lat_min=37|lat_sec=33
|lon_dir=W|lon_deg=053|lon_min=03|lon_sec=31
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Elliston Ridge Air Station (ID: N-22B, C-22B) was a General Surveillance Gap Filler Radar station in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, It was located {{convert|74|mi|km}} north-northwest of St.John's.^[1] It was closed in 1961.

History

The site was established in 1957 as a manned Gap Filler radar station, funded by the United States Air Force, under operational control of Red Cliff Air Station and part of Pinetree Line of Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) radar sites.

The station was assigned to Aerospace Defense Command in 1957, and was given designation "N-22B" (later "C-22B)." Aerospace Defense Command stationed the 642d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron at the station in 1957. It operated an AN/FPS-14 manned Gap Filler search radar.^[2]

USAF units and assignments

Units:

642d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, 1957

Inactivated 1 October 1961

Assignments:

4731st Air Defense Group, 1 April 1957
Goose Air Defense Sector, 6 June 1960 – 1 October 1961

References

1. ^http://www.radomes.org/museum/cadin.html
2. ^Information for Elliston Ridge AS, NL

Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980)
Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., Searching the Skies, The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997)

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