Coopersville FAA Radar Site

Coopersville FAA Radar Site (19??-Active) - A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Long-Range Radar (LLR) site first established before 1990 near Coopersville, Ottawa County, Michigan. The site is used to identify and track military and civilian aircraft movements within a 200-mile radius and to provide air-ground radio communication with those aircraft. Assigned an FAA ID of CPV. Active FAA Radar Site. History This site became an FAA radar site before 1990, furnishing radar track data to the FAA ARTCC's and to USAF Direction Centers. The initial FAA FPS-66A search radar remained in operation until it was modified in July 2011 to become a Common Air Route Surveillance Radar (CARSR) using a 1561 antenna. Coopersville FAA Radar Site received the first production model of the CARSR Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) equipment to upgrade it's legacy FPS-66A radar set. A FYQ-47 Common Digitizer was probably placed in service by February 1973 when the USAF/FAA FST-2 to FYQ-47 replacement program was completed. By 1990 the site was equipped with an FPS-66A search radar and a CD-2A Common Digitizer. The Coopersville CD-2A was scheduled to receive an upgrade kit to implement three level weather data processing on 14 Dec 1990 CARSR Radar The nationwide replacement program converting FAA legacy radar systems to the CARSR radar configuration was completed by 17 Aug 2015 and Coopersville FAA Radar Site was a part of that program. Legacy FAA radars underwent a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) that replaced key components in the vintage ARSR-1, ARSR-2, FPS-20, FPS-66 and FPS-67 radars. The CARSR program replaced legacy klystron radar transmitters with a solid-state transmitter as well as renovating the radar receiver and signal processor. The CARSR modification also included common digitizer functionality making a separate common digitizer unnecessary. The Coopersville FAA Radar Site is now operating with the CARSR radar. The secondary radar at this site is an ATCBI-6 Beacon set. The radar site data is now available to the USAF/NORAD Battle Control System-Fixed (BCS-F) operations centers (EADS & WADS) as well as the FAA Chicago ARTCC (ZAU) and adjacent ARTCCs. Other federal agencies have access to the data under the Homeland Security umbrella. Coopersville FAA Site Major Equipment List Search Radar HF Radar Data Systems IFF/SIF/Beacon FPS-66A CARSR CD-2A ATCBI-6 Current Status Active FAA facility near Coopersville, Michigan. {"selectable":false,"height":"-500","width":"-500"} Location: 8175 Garfield Street, Cooperville, Michigan 49404. Maps & Images Lat: 43.04559 Long: -85.99105 Multi Maps from ACME Maps from Bing Maps from Google Elevation: 654' GPS Locations: 43.04559, -85.99105 Coopersville FAA Radar Site See Also: Chicago ARTCC JSS System FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers US Radar Sets Sources: FAA - Site Listing of Legacy Radars as of 23 Dec 2016. U.S. DoT - Recommendation on Transition from Primary/Secondary Radar to Secondary-Only Radar Capability 1994. FAA - Three Level Weather For ARTCC Displays - Project Implementation Plan, FAA Order 7110.14A, 14 Feb 1990. FAA - SSR/DMTI Modification - Project Implementation Plan, FAA Order 6340.20, 6 Jul 1988. Ted Roelofs, The Grand Rapids Press, New radar tower promises more secure, efficient air travel in West Michigan. Links: Coopersville FAA Radar Site Photos of CARSR Equipment. Wikipedia - Joint Surveillance System Ted Roelofs, The Grand Rapids Press, New radar tower promises more secure, efficient air travel in West Michigan. Visited: No