Highlands Air Force Station
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Highlands Air Force Station was a military installation in Middletown Township near the borough of Highlands, New Jersey.[1] The station provided ground-controlled interception radar coverage as part of the Lashup Radar Network and the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment network, as well as providing radar coverage for the Highlands Army Air Defense Site. The site's 240 acres (97 ha)[1] is now the Rocky Point section in Hartshorne Woods Park of the Monmouth County Parks System.
Highlands Air Force Station USAF transmitter call sign: "Jitney" | |
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Part of Air Defense Command | |
Coordinates | 40°23′29″N 073°59′38″W |
Type | General Surveillance Radar Station |
Code | L-12: 1948 Lashup Radar Network P-9: 1949 ADC permanent network Z-9: 1963 July 31 NORAD network |
Site information | |
Controlled by | United States Air Force |
Site history | |
In use | 1948-1966 |
Garrison information | |
Past commanders | Major Weston F. Griffith (1955-1961) |
Garrison | 646th AC&W Squadron (1948-1966), 52nd Artillery Brigade (Air Defense) (1960-1963, 1967-1973), 19th Air Defense Artillery Group (1963-1967), 608th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (1942-1945) |
The Navesink Military Reservation (also called the Highlands Military Reservation) was added as a historic district to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 October 2015.[2]