Information for El Paso (FAA Site), TX

Latitude: 31-40-51 N, Longitude: 106-11-50 W

Perm ID	Sage ID	JSS ID	Unit	Location	Early Equip.	Final Equip.	Oper. Date	Inact. Date	Notes
Z-228	Z-244	J-27	4629 ADS; OLAH 26 ADS	El Paso (FAA Site), TX	ARSR-1 (FAA)	ARSR-1E (FAA); FPS-90 (FPS-116)	1963; 1972	late 1990's	Located in Horizon City, TX. Reactivated (Southern Air Defense System). Now replaced by new ARSR-4 JSS sites at Eagle Peak, TX (J-27A) and at Deming, NM (J-28A).

Perm ID

Sage ID

JSS ID

Unit

Location

Early
Equip.

Final
Equip.

Oper.
Date

Inact.
Date

Notes

Z-228

Z-244

J-27

4629 ADS; OLAH 26 ADS

El Paso (FAA Site), TX

ARSR-1 (FAA)

ARSR-1E (FAA); FPS-90 (FPS-116)

1963; 1972

late 1990's

Located in Horizon City, TX. Reactivated (Southern Air Defense System). Now replaced by new ARSR-4 JSS sites at Eagle Peak, TX (J-27A) and at Deming, NM (J-28A).

History of El Paso (FAA Site), TX

Using an ARSR-1 radar, this joint-use facility began contributing information to the Air Defense Command network in 1963 (as SAGE site Z-228). In 1972 a detachment of the 4629th Air Defense Squadron arrived at this site (redesignated as SAGE site Z-244) to install and maintain an AN/FPS-90 height-finder radar. Circa 1977, the AN/FPS-90 was modified to an AN/FPS-116 version; this height-finder radar was then retired circa 1988. The El Paso radar site was deactivated in the late 1990?s after new JSS radars sites (operating ARSR-4 radars) were commissioned at Eagle Peak, TX, and at Deming, NM.

References: "Searching the Skies"; misc. ADCOM documents; eyewitness accounts.

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