Cudjoe Key Air Force Station

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Cudjoe Key Air Force Station (earlier Cudjoe Key Missile Tracking Annex, Eglin AFB Site "No D 8") is a Formerly Used Defense Site of 68.5 acres (27.7 ha)[1] in Monroe County, Florida, 7 mi (11 km) Northeast of Perky, Florida.[2]:{{{3}}}

Background

In February 1959, the county commissioned approved a water line to the "missile tracking site on Cudjoe Key" being built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.[3] Activated on 16 Jun 1959[2]:{{{3}}} by the Army, the site was "to track missiles traveling over the Eglin Gulf Test Range. The Air Force assumed operations in 1960" (the initial site code J-08 was changed to Z-399[4]:{{{3}}} in 1963.)

On 30 June 1967, the station transferred from the jurisdiction of Eglin AFB to Goodfellow AFB[2]:{{{3}}} after beginning a May 1967 classified mission for the USAF Security Service.[4]:{{{3}}} On 30 September 1970 the military installation transferred to Tyndall Air Force Base,[2]:{{{3}}} and in 1973 the first aerostat of the Tethered Aerostat Radar System was deployed at the site.[5]:{{{3}}}

Aerospace Defense Command / Tactical Air Command / Air Combat Command

By 1977 the site had transferred under "the 671st Radar Squadron [at] Homestead" Air Force Base, and the site manager was John Workman in a unit that worked for the Patrick AFB Range Measurements Laboratory.[6] In 1981 the aerostat broke free while being brought down prior to a storm, and it was later shot down by an F-4 Phantom,[7] and the aerostat broke free again in 1989 and 1991.[3]:{{{3}}} in 2007 a private Cessna crashed into the tethers, killing 3 passengers.[3]:{{{3}}} In 2013, petition signatures were being gathered to keep the "Fat Albert" Aerostat at the station.[5]:{{{3}}}

By 2005, the annex had been redesignated as both Cudjoe Key Air Force Station and Detachment 3, Southeast Air Defense Sector, with the latter unit embedded at the site.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CZIC-td194-56-f6-n27-1981/xml/CZIC-td194-56-f6-n27-1981.xml
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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (transcription available at the Federation of American Scientists website)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19770815&id=l9wiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Dc4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=7183,122364
  7. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19810812&id=tktPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CY8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4645,3097271
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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