Slidell FAA Radar Site
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Slidell FAA Radar Site (1960s-Active) - A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Long Range Radar (LLR) site first established in the 1960s near Slidell, in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. 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 a SAGE System ID of Z-246, a JSS ID of J-13 and an FAA ID of ZNEW. Active FAA Radar Site. HistoryThis site probably became an FAA radar site in the early 1960s, furnishing radar track data to the FAA ARTCC's and later to USAF Direction Centers. The initial FAA ARSR-1 search radar was replaced with an ARSR-4 3D radar in the mid-1990s1960s. 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. In late 1972 a detachment arrived at this FAA site from the 630th Radar Squadron to set up and operate an FPS-6 height-finder radar to provide input to the SAGE System. With the deactivation of the 630th in 1977, duties were assumed by an element of the Southeast Air Defense Sector, which was headquartered in Pearl River. With the development of the Joint Surveillance System (JSS) the site was designated as JSS site J-13 and continued to provide radar track data to the SAGE System and after 1983 to its successors. In the mid-1990s the ARSR-1 search radar was changed out for an ARSR-4 3D radar. 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 Houston ARTCC and adjacent ARTCCs.
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