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Kalispell Air Force Station

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Over the years, the equipment at the station was upgraded or modified to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the information gathered by the radars. The 716th Radar Squadron (SAGE) was inactivated on 1 April 1978 as part of the draw down of Aerospace Defense Command, and the station turned over
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height-finder radars in 1961, 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.
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FD height-finder radar was to have replaced one of the height-finder radars, but was never installed. One AN/FPS-90 was decommissioned in 1969.
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The 716th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was assigned to the new station on 1 May 1959. The squadron started operations with an
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Mobile Radar program. On 20 October 1953 ADC requested a third phase of twenty-five radar sites be constructed.
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It was closed in 1978 by the Air Force, and the radar site on Blacktail Mountain was turned over to the
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In addition to the main facility, Kalispell operated several AN/FPS-14 Gap Filler sites:
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General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 13.3 miles (21.4 km) south of
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Kalispell Air Force Station came into existence as part of Phase III of the
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search radar. The AN/FPS-116 was removed c. 1988. In the late 1990s, an
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replaced the ARSR-3. The site remains in use as a JSS site today
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Kalispell Air Force Station (ADC ID: TM-179, NORAD ID: Z-179)
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Installations of the United States Air Force in Montana
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Kalispell AFS is located in Montana
48°00′41″N 114°21′53″W / 48.01139°N 114.36472°W / 48.01139; -114.36472 (Kalispell AFS TM-179)
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Kalispell, Montana
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