The Air Operations Control Station Nieuw-Milligen (AOCS NM) of the

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is located near

Nieuw-Milligen Nieuw-Milligen is a hamlet in the municipality of Apeldoorn in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands. Nieuw-Milligen is best known for Air Operations Control Station Nieuw-Milligen, a military air traffic control centre in the Netherlands. T ...

(in the municipality of Apeldoorn). Air Operations Control Station Nieuw-Milligen map

It is home to: *the 710th Sqn. Control & Reporting Centre Squadron (CRC) *the 711th Sqn. Air Traffic Control Squadron (MilATCC, i.e. Military Air Traffic Control Centre) *the 970th Sqn. Support Squadron It is the

air traffic control Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airs ...

centre for all military air traffic in the Netherlands, as well as the centre for Air Battle Management, Air Surveillance, Fighter and

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Control, and Alerting. Air traffic control and information service is also provided to civilian traffic operating within its airspace. AOCS NM uses ''DutchMil'' as its callsign for air traffic control services, and ''Bandbox'' as a callsign for the military Control and Reporting Centre (CRC). The base started out as a

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facility in 1860 as Kamp Nieuw-Milligen. A small military airstrip was added to the base in 1913, primarily for diversions, and this remained in use as such until 1940, when it was destroyed by the Dutch military to prevent it from being used by the

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. The

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...

was not rebuilt after the war, but there is a

helipad A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft. While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard s ...

, located on the north side of the base. The ICAO codes refer to the ATC and CRC units, not the helipad.Abandoned and little known airfields - Gelderland
page retrieved March 24, 2019.

References

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