Information for Cross City AFS, FL

Latitude: 29-38-10 N, Longitude: 083-05-55 W

Call Sign(s): Facade


Perm ID Sage ID JSS ID Unit Location Early
Equip.
Final
Equip.
Oper.
Date
Inact.
Date
Notes
TM-200 Z-200   691 Cross City AFS, FL FPS-20A / FPS-66A; FPS-6A (2)   1959 30-Sep-70 Plans for an AN/FPS-28 FD search radar were cancelled. Different site from Cross City JSS site (Old Town), now with ARSR-4.
TM-199B Z-199B / Z-200B     Bridgeboro, GA FPS-18   Oct-59 05-Jun-70 Gap-Filler Annex. Both building and radar tower are still extant. Site designation changed from Z-199B to Z-200B when Eufaula AFS, AL (Z-199) closed in 1968; the Bridgeboro GFA transferred administratively to Cross City AFS, FL (Z-200). According to the 1955 CONAD History document, site TM-200B was planned to be at/near Lake City, FL (with an FPS-14).
TM-200A Z-200A     Perry, FL FPS-18   Apr-61 05-Jun-70 Gap-Filler Annex. Both building and radar tower are still extant. Located on the north side of Perry-Foley Airport, just off Industrial Drive, south of town. The airport itself was originally the Perry Army Airfield.
TM-200B       Lake City, FL ** (FPS-14 first planned, then FPS-18)       ** Gap-Filler Annex. In early ADC plans, but never was built. Possible planned location might have been at the Lake City Naval Air Station, now Municipal Airport. Later, site TM-199B / Z-199B at Bridgeboro, GA, became site Z-200B.

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