Brookfield Air Force Station
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| Brookfield Air Force Station
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| Part of Air Defense Command (ADC) | |
| Type | Air Force Station |
| Coordinates | 41°13′09″N 080°33′43″W / 41.21917°N 80.56194°W |
| Location code | ADC ID: P-62 |
| Built | 1952 |
| In use | 1952-1959 |
| Controlled by |  United States Air Force |
| Garrison | 662d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron |
Brookfield Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 1.1 miles (1.8 km) south-southeast of Brookfield, Ohio. It was closed in 1959.
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History [edit]
Brookfield Air Force Station constructed as part of the Air Defense Command permanent network it was opened in April 1952.
The 662d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron began operations with AN/FPS-3 and AN/FPS-5 radars, and initially the station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and warning station. As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes. This operation allowed Lashup site L-18 at Ravenna, OH, to shut down. In 1957 the AN/FPS-5 height-finder radar was replaced with an AN/FPS-4, and then the AN/FPS-4 was replaced with an AN/FPS-6 in 1958.
In addition to the main facility, Brookfield operated two unmanned AN/FPS-14 (P-62B) and AN/FPS-18 (P-62A) Gap Filler sites:
- Thompson, OH (P-62A) 41°41′09″N 081°02′38″W / 41.68583°N 81.04389°W
- Lewisville, OH (P-62B) 39°45′23″N 081°13′40″W / 39.75639°N 81.22778°W
The P-62 site designation and the 662d Radar Squadron were transferred to Oakdale AFS, Pennsylvania, when radar operations ceased at Brookfield AFS on 1 Nov 1959 due to budget considerations. This site at Brookfield became a gap-filler radar site (RP-62E) for Oakdale. The Brookfield site operated as a gap-filler annex from Feb 1964 until June 1968. The GATR site (R-12) at Brookfield also remained in operation.
Air Force units and assignments [edit]
Units [edit]
- 662d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron,
- Activated at Selfridge AFB, MI (L-17), 18 April 1950, not operational
- Moved to Lashup site L-18 at Ravenna, OH, 1 January 1951
- Moved to Brookfield AFS on 1 October 1951
- Moved to Oakdale AFS, PA, 1 November 1959 when site inactivated.
Assignments
- 541st Aircraft Control and Warning Group (30th Air Division), 18 April 1950
- 30th Air Division, 6 February 1952
- 4708th Defense Wing, 16 February 1953
- 30th Air Division, 8 July 1956
- Detroit Air Defense Sector, 1 April-1 November 1959
See also [edit]
References [edit]
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, [1] Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980).
- Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., Searching the Skies, The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program, [2] US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).
- Information for Brookfield AFS, OH
