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词条 Fox Harbour Air Station
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  1. History

  2. USAF units and assignments

  3. See also

  4. References

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|name=Fox Harbour Air Station
|partof= Pinetree Line
|location= Labrador, Canada
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|image=922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron - Emblem.png
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|caption= Emblem of the 922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
|type= Radar Station
|code=N-27C
|built=1957
|builder=United States Air Force
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|controlledby= Aerospace Defense Command
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Fox Harbour Air Station (ADC ID: N-27C) was a General Surveillance Gap Filler Radar station in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, It was located {{convert|210|mi|km}} southeast of CFB Goose Bay.[1] It was closed in 1961.

History

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

The station was assigned to Aerospace Defense Command in 1957, and was given designation "N-27C". Aerospace Defense Command stationed the 922d 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:
  • 922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Activated at Grenier AFB, New Hampshire 26 May 1953

Moved to Cartwright Air Station, 1 October 1953

Discontinued 1961[3]

Assignments:
  • 4732d Air Defense Group (ADC), 1 April 1957
  • Goose Air Defense Sector, 1 April 1960

See also

{{Portal|United States Air Force|Military of the United States}}
  • List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations

References

{{AFHRA}}
1. ^http://www.radomes.org/museum/cadin.html
2. ^Fox Harbour Air Station
3. ^Fox Harbour Air Station
  • A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, by Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
  • Winkler, David F. (1997) Searching the skies: the legacy of the United States Cold War defense radar program. Prepared for United States Air Force Headquarters Air Combat Command.
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