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Port Isabel Air Force Station
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Part of Air Defense Command (ADC)
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Location of Port Isabel AFS, Texas
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Coordinates
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Type
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Air Force Station
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Site information
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Controlled by
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 United States Air Force
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Site history
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Built
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1958
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In use
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1958-1961
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Garrison information
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Garrison
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811th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
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Port Isabel Air Force Station (ADC ID: TM-190) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 18.7 miles (30.1 km) north-northeast of Brownsville, Texas. It was closed in 1961.
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History 1
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Air Force units and assignments 2
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Units 2.1
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Assignments 2.2
History
Port Isabel Air Force Station came into existence as part of Phase III of the Air Defense Command Mobile Radar program. On October 20, 1953 ADC requested a third phase of twenty-five radar sites be constructed.
The 811th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was moved to the former Port Isabel Auxiliary Naval Air Station on 1 January 1958. It operated an AN/FPS-3A search radar and an AN/FPS-6 height-finder radar at the site, 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.
The Air Force inactivated Port Isabel AFS on 1 June 1961 due to budgetary constraints. Today the site is part of the Port Isabel-Cameron County Airport and the Port Isabel Detention Center.
Air Force units and assignments
Units
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Constituted as the 811th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
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Activated on 8 November 1956 at Oklahoma City AFS, OK (not equipped or manned)
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Moved to Port Isabel AFS on 1 January 1958
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Discontinued and inactivated on 1 June 1961
Assignments
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