Cartwright Long Range Radar Site (LAB-6) is a

Royal Canadian Air Force The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; french: Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environm ...

Long Range Radar Site located east-northeast of

CFB Goose Bay Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay , commonly referred to as CFB Goose Bay, is a Canadian Forces Base located in the municipality of Happy Valley-Goose Bay in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is operated as an air force base by ...

, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Facilities

The facility contains a long range,

phased array In antenna theory, a phased array usually means an electronically scanned array, a computer-controlled array of antennas which creates a beam of radio waves that can be electronically steered to point in different directions without moving th ...

AN/FPS-117 The AN/FPS-117 is an L-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) 3-dimensional air search radar first produced by GE Aerospace in 1980 and now part of Lockheed Martin. The system offers instrumented detection at ranges on the order of and h ...

3-dimensional air search surveillance radar that was installed in November 1998 as part of the

North Warning System The North Warning System (NWS) is a joint United States and Canadian early-warning radar system for the atmospheric air defense of North America. It provides surveillance of airspace from potential incursions or attacks from across North America' ...

. The site (LAB-6) also consists of radar towers, communications facility, and storage and tunnel connected buildings for personnel.

History

The present Long Range Radar site is built south of

Cartwright Air Station Cartwright Air Station (ADC ID: N-27) is a closed General Surveillance Radar station. It is located east-northeast of CFB Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was closed in 1968. History The site was established in 1953 as a General Surve ...

, which was established in 1953 as a General Surveillance Radar station, by the

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...

. It was used initially by the

Northeast Air Command The Northeast Air Command (NEAC) was a short-lived organization in the United States Air Force tasked with the operation and defense of air bases in Greenland, Labrador and Newfoundland. It was formed in 1950 from the facilities of the United St ...

, which stationed the

922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

on the station on 1 October 1953. The station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and warning station as part of the

Pinetree Line The Pinetree Line was a series of radar stations located across the northern United States and southern Canada at about the 50th parallel north, along with a number of other stations located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic and Pacific coasts. ...

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AN/FPS-117 Radar information from FAS

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Facilities

History

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