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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Dauphin Island Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 1.9 miles (3.1 km) east of Dauphin Island, Alabama, near historic Fort Gaines (Alabama). It was closed in 1980. Beginning in September 1982, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ...
0117086. Website. www.townofdauphinisland.org. Dauphin Island is an island town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, on a barrier island of the same name, in the Gulf of Mexico. It incorporated in 1988. [5] The population was 1,778 at the 2020 census, [4] up from 1,238 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Mobile metropolitan area.
Dauphin Island Air Force Station, Alabama, 1 April 1966 – 15 November 1958. 698th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron; Thomasville Air Force Station, Alabama, 1 December 1957 1966 – 15 November 1958. 701st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron; Fort Fisher Air Force Station, North Carolina, 1 December 1953 1966 – 1 March 1956
693d Radar Squadron. The 693d Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Dauphin Island Air Force Station, Alabama. It was inactivated on 30 September 1970. The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of ...
Home to the 1st Fighter Wing and the Virginia Air National Guard's 192d Fighter Wing, both flying the F-22A Raptor. The base also hosts the headquarters of Air Combat Command, the 363rd Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing and the 480th ISR Wing. [33] Laughlin Air Force Base. Del Rio.
On 31 December 1962, Air Force moved the 635th RADS to Dauphin Island AFS, Alabama, however a detachment operated at Fort Lawton until March 1963. The Army continued operations at the site until the AADCP was inactivated 1 September 1974. The Fort Lawton radar site remains in use by the FAA today, still operating the ARSR-1E search radar.
Gunter Annex is a United States Air Force installation located in the North-northeast suburbs of Montgomery, Alabama. The base is named after former Montgomery mayor William Adams Gunter. Until 1992 it was known as Gunter Air Force Base or Gunter Air Force Station. It has been a military training base since its opening in 1940.
635th Radar Squadron. The 635th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Dauphin Island Air Force Station, Alabama. It was inactivated on 1 July 1974. The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the ...