Spotted Island Air Station

Spotted Island Air Station (ADC ID: N-27B) was a General Surveillance Gap Filler Radar station in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, It was located 195 miles (314 km) east of CFB Goose Bay.^[1] It was closed in 1961.

Spotted Island Air Station
Part of Pinetree Line
Labrador, Canada
Emblem of the 922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Site information
Type	Radar Station
Code	N-27B
Controlled by	Aerospace Defense Command
Location
Coordinates	53°31′05″N 055°44′56″W
Site history
Built	1957
Built by	United States Air Force
In use	1957-1961

Spotted Island AS

Location of Spotted Island Air Station, Labrador

History

The site was established in 1957 as a staffed Gap Filler radar station, built by the United States Air Force, under operational control of Cartwright Air Station and part of the Pinetree Line of Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) radar sites.

The station was assigned to Aerospace Defense Command in 1957, and was given designation "N-27B". Aerospace Defense Command stationed the 922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron at the station in 1957. It operated an AN/FPS-14 staffed Gap Filler search radar.^[2]

USAF units and assignments

Units:

• 922d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Activated at Grenier AFB, New Hampshire 26 May 1953

Moved to Cartwright Air Station, 1 October 1953

Discontinued 1961^[3]

Assignments:

• 4732d Air Defense Group (ADC), 1 April 1957
• Goose Air Defense Sector, 1 April 1960

See also

• List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations