My best search on this "US Military Reservation" on Boston Post Rd in Orange calls it "Orange Air National Guard Station". Thing is, I don't see any airstrips here, or room for one.
This Nike facility was operational from approximately 1956 to 1961. Date of transfer to the Air Force is unknown; but by 15 Dec 1975 it was listed as Orange ANG Communications Station, an active Air National Guard detached installation. I believe this installation is still active.
The partially intact IFC Area is used by the CTANG as an Aircraft Control & Warning site. In place of the Nike Ajax acquisition radar, a modern 3-dimensional TPS-75 radar is now in use here. An Operations Module, the modern equivalent of a Nike control trailer, is attached to the original Nike system Interconnecting Corridor. The Administrative Area also remains largely intact at this site.
The latter site gives coordinates and a link to a TerraServer image that confirms it as the same site.
Yup, I only did launch sites. There was hardly ever anything left of the radar sites or the command sites that I didn't wantt o eneter hundreds of empty fields.
That's the base for the 103rd Air Control Squadron (103 ACS)
Known as "Yankee Watch", the mission of the 103rd Air Control Squadron is real-time detection, identification and surveillance of air traffic for combat operations and homeland defense. The 103rd ACS is the oldest unit of its kind in the US.[1]
This was a radar site in conjunction with the Nike missile site close by on Bull Hill Lane in West Haven, CT. I believe that now, being a CT ANG site, there is still an active radar unit.
O.K., this is weird, but...
Yes, this is the site of the Orange ANG Station, and also the Bridgeport Nike Site BR-15C.
According to http://www.airforcebase.net/usaf/usafnike.html:
This Nike facility was operational from approximately 1956 to 1961. Date of transfer to the Air Force is unknown; but by 15 Dec 1975 it was listed as Orange ANG Communications Station, an active Air National Guard detached installation. I believe this installation is still active.
And also from http://ed-thelen.org/loc-c.html:
The partially intact IFC Area is used by the CTANG as an Aircraft Control & Warning site. In place of the Nike Ajax acquisition radar, a modern 3-dimensional TPS-75 radar is now in use here. An Operations Module, the modern equivalent of a Nike control trailer, is attached to the original Nike system Interconnecting Corridor. The Administrative Area also remains largely intact at this site.
The latter site gives coordinates and a link to a TerraServer image that confirms it as the same site.
The bigger question is: how did kjfitz miss this one? Just concentrating on the Launch sites?
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/5492
Known as "Yankee Watch", the mission of the 103rd Air Control Squadron is real-time detection, identification and surveillance of air traffic for combat operations and homeland defense. The 103rd ACS is the oldest unit of its kind in the US.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Air_National_Guard