Cut Throat Island Air Station

Cut Throat Island Air Station
Cut Throat Island Air Station
Part of Pinetree Line
Labrador, Canada
	Emblem of the 922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Coordinates	54°29′47″N 057°08′00″W / 54.49639°N 57.13333°W
Type	Radar Station
Site information
Controlled by	Aerospace Defense Command
Site history
Built	1957
Built by	United States Air Force
In use	1957-1961

Cut Throat Island AS

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Cut Throat Island Air Station (ADC ID: N-27A) was a General Surveillance Gap Filler Radar station in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, It was located 160 miles (260 km) east-northeast of CFB Goose Bay.^[1] It was closed in 1961.

History

The site was established in 1957 as a staffed 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.^{[citation needed]}

The station was assigned to Aerospace Defense Command in 1957, and was given designation "N-27A". Aerospace Defense Command stationed the 922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron at the station in 1957. It operated an AN/FPS-14 staffed Gap Filler search radar.^[2]

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:

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.