Hanna City Air Force Station
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Hanna City Air Force Station Air Defense Command (ADC) | |
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Coordinates | 40°41′56″N 089°49′33″W / 40.69889°N 89.82583°W |
Type | Air Force Station |
Site information | |
Controlled by | United States Air Force |
Site history | |
Built | 1951 |
In use | 1951–1968 |
Garrison information | |
Garrison | 791st Aircraft Control and Warning (later Radar) Squadron |
Hanna City Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-63, NORAD ID: Z-63) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 1.6 miles (2.6 km) west-northwest of Hanna City, Illinois. It was closed in 1968. It is still in use by the Federal Aviation Administration as a Joint Surveillance System radar station.
History
Hanna City Air Force Station (AFS) was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the second segment of the
Receiving the Defense Secretary's approval on 21 July, the Air Force directed the Corps of Engineers to proceed with construction. 42.8 acres (17.3 ha) were acquired between 1952 and July 1959. The Air Force constructed and operated the station, which included over 35 buildings and miscellaneous smaller structures.
The 791st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated at Hanna City AFS on 10 May 1951 and began operations using
In 1958 Hanna City AFS replaced the AN/FPS-3 with an
In 1964 the AN/FPS-20A was upgraded and redesignated as an
The 791st Radar Squadron was inactivated on 18 June 1968, and the site was closed on 30 June due to budget reductions. The radar towers and four buildings were transferred to the FAA and site remains an active JSS radar site.
The remainder of the site was then declared excess to the
The Hanna City Work Camp closed in October 2002 and the state of Illinois turned over the work camp site to Peoria County in 2009. As of August 2009, the site was occasionally being used for training of Peoria County Sheriff's Office for Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT).[1] As of 2012, the FAA radar was still at the site and Peoria County was looking for ideas for usage of the remainder of the property, including creation of an agribusiness incubator or community organic farm.[2]
Air Force units and assignments
Units
- Constituted as the 791st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
- Activated on 10 May 1951
- Redesignated as 791st Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 November 1959
- Discontinued and inactivated on 18 June 1968
Assignments
- 543d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 10 May 1951
- 31st Air Division 6 February 1952
- 20th Air Division, 1 March 1956
- 37th Air Division, 15 October 1958
- 30th Air Division, 1 April 1959
- Chicago Air Defense Sector, 1 June 1959
- 20th Air Division, 1 April 1966
- 30th Air Division, 1 December 1967 – 18 June 1968
See also
- List of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons
- United States general surveillance radar stations
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- ^ "Final Community Action Plan Former Hanna City Air Force Station Hanna City, Illinois" (PDF). US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ Kravetz, Andy (4 December 2012). "Peoria County is working with ideas of how to use old prison at Hanna City". Peoria Journal Star.
- Cornett, Lloyd H; Johnson, Mildred W (1980). A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization, 1946–1980 (PDF). Peterson AFB, CO: Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center.
- Winkler, David F.; Webster, Julie L (1997). Searching the skies : the legacy of the United States Cold War defense Radar Program. Champaign, IL: US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories. ]
- Information for Hanna City AFS, IL Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine on Radomes.org