Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.^[2] NAS JRB New Orleans is home to a Navy Reserve aggressor squadron and a fleet logistics support squadron, the 159th Fighter Wing (159 FW) of the Louisiana Air National Guard, Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, a detachment of a Marine Corps Reserve light helicopter attack squadron, as well as other US Navy and US Army activities. The base has a 24/7 operating schedule to support both the 159 FW's NORAD air sovereignty/homeland defense requirements and for Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans search and rescue/maritime law enforcement/port security missions. It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field (IATA: NBG, ICAO: KNBG, FAA LID: NBG) which is located about six nautical miles (12 km) south of the central business district of New Orleans.^[3] The base's predecessor, NAS New Orleans, occupied the current location of the University of New Orleans's principal campus until 1957.

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans
Alvin Callender Field
Belle Chasse, Louisiana in the United States
An F-15C Eagle of the US Air Force's 159th Fighter Wing taxing at NASJRB New Orleans during 2013
Site information
Type	Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base
Owner	Department of Defense
Operator	US Navy
Controlled by	Navy Region Southeast
Condition	Operational
Website	Official website
Location
NAS JRB New Orleans Show map of Louisiana NAS JRB New Orleans Show map of the United States NAS JRB New Orleans Show map of Gulf of Mexico
Coordinates	29°49′31″N 090°02′06″W
Site history
Built	August 1954 – December 1957 (1957) (as NAS New Orleans)
In use	13 December 1957 – present
Garrison information
Current commander	Captain Lena Kaman
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: NBG, ICAO: KNBG, FAA LID: NBG, WMO: 722316
Elevation	0.64 metres (2 ft 1 in) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 04/22 3,048 metres (10,000 ft) Porus European Mix 14/32 1,828.8 metres (6,000 ft) Porus European Mix
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Occupants

Current occupants

• Fighter Squadron Composite 204 (VFC-204), U.S. Navy Reserve, operating F-5N/F Tiger II fighter-attack aircraft
• VMR Belle Chase
• 159th Fighter Wing (159 FW), Louisiana Air National Guard, operating F-15C/D Eagle fighter aircraft
• Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 54 (VR-54), U.S. Navy Reserve, operating C-130T Hercules transport aircraft^[4]
• Detachment A, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773 (HMLA-773), U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, operating UH-1Y "Super Huey" utility helicopters & AH-1 Super Cobra attack helicopters
• Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, operating MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters^[5]
• NCTAMS LANT Det New Orleans
• 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines
• Navy Reserve Center New Orleans
• 377th Theater Sustainment Command
• FRC Mid-Atlantic Site New Orleans
• Region Legal Service Office Southeast Det New Orleans
• Navy Air Logistics Office
• Military Entrance Processing Station (a.k.a. MEPS), New Orleans^[6]

Previous occupants

NAS New Orleans in the 1940s, located on the present-day main campus of the University of New Orleans

• VAW-77 "Nightwolves", U.S. Navy Reserve, which was the Navy's only aerial counter-narcotics unit, and flew the E-2 Hawkeye
• VP-94 "Crawfishers", U.S. Navy Reserve, an anti-submarine warfare/maritime patrol unit that flew the P-3 Orion
• VC-13, U.S. Navy Reserve, a fleet adversary unit flying the A-4 Skyhawk; relocated to NAS Miramar, CA (redesignated VFC-13 and relocated to NAS Fallon, NV) flying the F-5 Tiger II)
• Marine Aircraft Group 46 Detachment B
• Marine Aircraft Group 42
• 926th Fighter Wing (Air Force Reserve Command), which flew the A-10 Thunderbolt II; relocated to Nellis AFB, NV and re-designated as the 926th Wing, an Associate unit to the USAF Warfare Center
• U.S. Customs Service air operations
• Civil Air Patrol, SWR-LA-086

Facilities

NAS JRB New Orleans (Alvin Callender Field) has two runways with PEM surfaces: 4/22 is 9,999 by 200 feet (3,048 × 61 m) and 14/32 is 6,000 by 200 feet (1,829 × 61 m).^[3]

Demographics

New Orleans Station CDP
Census-designated place
Coordinates: 29°49′53″N 90°01′16″W
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	Plaquemines
Elevation [7]	0 ft (0 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	2,508
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID	2804360[7]

New Orleans Station is a census-designated place (CDP) covering the residential population of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.^[8]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2020	2,508		—
U.S. Decennial Census[9] 2020[10]

It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 2,508.^[11]

2020 census

New Orleans Station CDP, Louisiana – Racial and ethnic composition
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.

Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)	Pop 2020[10]	% 2020
White alone (NH)	1,161	46.29%
Black or African American alone (NH)	587	23.41%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)	19	0.76%
Asian alone (NH)	90	3.59%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)	17	0.68%
Other Race alone (NH)	22	0.88%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)	159	6.34%
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	453	18.06%
Total	2,508	100.00%

Education

The base has a charter K-8 school, Belle Chasse Academy.^[12] The school opened on September 5, 2002.^[13]

The entire parish is in the Plaquemines Parish School Board school district.^[14] The school district schools in Belle Chasse are where the base is assigned to.^[12] Belle Chasse High School is the Belle Chasse area high school.

See also

• List of United States Navy airfields