| Perm ID | Sage ID | JSS ID | Unit | Location | Early Equip. |
Final Equip. |
Oper. Date |
Inact. Date |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M-116 | Z-116 | 614 | Cherry Point MCAS, NC | FPS-8 (USAF); FPS-8 (USMC); FPS-6 (USAF) | 1958 | 01-Aug-63 | Radar site was located adjacent to Base Flight Ops. USAF AN/FPS-8 damaged by Hurricane 'Donna' in 1960. Plans for an AN/FPS-28 FD search radar were cancelled. GATR site R-16 (Newport, NC) retained until JSS switchover, circa 1983. (AC&W Site M-116 was originally slated to be at Engelhard, NC, which ended up becoming a gap-filler radar site.) | ||
| M-116A, P-56C, M-117B | Z-56C / Z-117B | Elizabeth City, NC | FPS-14 | Sep-57 | Apr-68 * | Gap-Filler Annex. Originally was to be M-116A. Alongside Body Road (SR 1139) on its west side, south-southwest of town, on the east side of the original Elizabeth City Municipal Airport. * ADC records list the closing date as on/after ''Dec-67''; one veteran's recollections say ''Apr-68.'' | |||
| M-116B / M-117D | Z-116B / Z-117D | Engelhard, NC | FPS-14 | FPS-18 | Feb-59 | Apr-68 | Gap-Filler Annex. Reassigned to Roanoke Rapids AFS (Z-117) after Cherry Point AFS (Z-116) closed 1 Aug 1963. Alongside Radar Road (SR 1105), south of town. FPS-18 radar was relocated to the Goldstone Deep Space Comm. Complex for use as a range-safety radar (1976). (This gap-filler radar site was originally planned to be long-range AC&W radar station M-116, built instead at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.) | ||
| M-116C / M-115C | Z-115C | Holly Ridge, NC | FPS-14 | Feb-59 | Jun-68 | Gap-Filler Annex. Building is no longer extant. Changed from M-116C to M-115C in 1963 when 614th AC&W Sq. at Cherry Point MCAS (M-116) deactivated. Site located 0.3 mile NW of US 17, ~ 1 mile north of town, on the grounds of former Camp Davis (a WWII coastal defense installation). |
Current Use: MCAS Cherry Point itself is still active; two radar towers still stand, but are not used. GATR site is used by the Carteret County (NC) fire department as a training site. A commercial radio transmitter tower is also located at the GATR site.
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