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FS2004 El Centro Naval Air Station (KNJK)
Naval Air Facility El Centro was commissioned on May 1st 1946, as a
Naval Air Station. Before this, the base was a Marine Corps Air Station.
Through the years, Navy El Centro had several names: Naval Air Facility,
Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, Naval Air Station, and the National
Parachute Test Range.
Today, NAF El Centro, under the command of Commander, Navy Region
Southwest, provides realistic training to aviation units and activities
of the Navy's operating and training forces. Aviation squadrons visit
NAF El Centro to practice gunnery, bombing, carrier landings and air
combat. The facility has two operating runways. The 9,500-foot east/west
runway handles 96% of the traffic. It is equipped with a Fresnel Lens
Optical Landing System at each approach end as well as lighted carrier
deck landing areas at both ends so pilots can simulate ship landings.
Apart from "touch and go" landings and take-offs, aircrews utilize the
many ranges at NAF El Centro to develop their skills. A remotely
controlled target area allows naval aviators to practice ordnance
delivery. The desert range is used for air-to-ground bombing, rocket
firing, strafing, dummy drops and mobile land target training. The
target complex uses the Weapons Impact Scoring System that microwaves
imaging to a range master control building. By John Stinstrom
   
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