St. Anthony Air Station

St. Anthony Air Station (1953-1968) - A Cold War Pinetree Line Air Force Radar Station first established in 1953 near St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador. Named St. Anthony Air Station after the location. Initially assigned a Permanent ID of N-26 and Later C-26. Abandoned in 1968.

921st AC&W Squadron

Constructed 1951 to 1953 and became operational in November 1953 as St. Anthony Air Station manned by the 921st AC&W Squadron. The station initially had both a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and early warning mission. The early warning mission involved tracking and identifying all aircraft entering their airspace while the GCI mission involved guiding Air Force interceptors to any identified enemy aircraft. Controllers at the station vectored fighter aircraft at the correct course and speed to intercept enemy aircraft using voice commands via ground-to-air radio.

Initial equipment included the FPS-3 and FPS-502 search radars and a TPS-502 height-finder radar. The search radar was later upgraded to an FPS-20 and then to an FPS-93A. An FPS-6 height-finder radar was installed.

Closure

St. Anthony AS radar equipment operation was terminated at 2030 hours on 31 Mar 1968, per ADC PAD 68-4. The 921st AC&W Squadron was deactivated on 18 Jun 1968.

St. Anthony AS Major Equipment List
Search Radar	HF Radar	Data Systems
FPS-3 FPS-502 FPS-20 FPS-93A FPS-14 Gap Filler	TPS-502 FPS-6	FST-1 Gap Filler

Gap Fillers

St. Anthony AS was responsible for the maintenance of one remote manned gap-filler radar site at La Scie Air Station. Manned by the Det. 2, 921st AC&W Squadron. The gap-filler sites were placed in locations where the main search radar lacked coverage. An OA-947 Gap Filler Monitor was installed at St. Anthony AFS allowing the operations personnel to remotely monitor tracks picked up by the gap-filler at La Scie AS. Tracks picked up by the FPS-14 gap-filler radar were processed by the FST-1 Coordinate Data Transmitter and sent over phone lines to the OA-947 at St. Anthony AS.

**St. Anthony AS Gap Filler Radar Sites** (edit list)
ADC	NORAD	Location	State	Type	From	To	GPS	Notes
N-26B		La Scie AS	NL	FPS-14, FST-1	1957	1961	49.98056, -55.53

Physical Plant

The physical plant of the site was divided into the main site, a cantonment area, a housing area and a radio site. The main site housed the operations buildings, the radar towers, and the backup generators. The cantonment area was adjacent to the main site and housed the enlisted barracks, the bachelor officer's quarters, the orderly room, the dining hall, the motor pool and other support buildings.

Unit Designations
921st Aircraft Control & Warning (AC&W) Squadron (1953-1968)

921st AC&W Assignments
26 May 1953 - Activated at Grenier Air Force Base, NH, as the 4707th Defense Wing. Fall of 1953 - Transferred to NEAC. 1 Apr 1957 - Reassigned to ADC and 4731st Air Defense Group. 6 Jun 1960 - Transferred to Goose ADS. 1 Apr 1966 - Transferred to 37th Air Division. 18 Jun 1968 - Discontinued.

**St. Anthony AFS Partial Commanders List** (edit list)
Assumed	Relieved	Rank	Name	Cullum
1954-07-03	1955-07-28	Major	Logan, Lloyd R.	N/A
1955-07-28		Major	Johnson, Raymond R.	N/A
	1956-12	Major	Berry, William M.	N/A
1956-12		Major	Hasskamp, Harold E.	N/A
		Major	Marvin, George C.	N/A
		Major	Fuss, John H.	N/A
	1960-03-04	Major	Douglas, Robert K.	N/A
1960-03-04	1960	Major	Rushlau, John A.	N/A
1960		Major	Chester, Sidney M.	N/A
	1962	Major	Gable, James E.	N/A
1962	1963	Major	Cashman, James E.	N/A
1963		Lt. Colonel	Rockwell, Archie M.	N/A
	1964-05-04	Major	Ludlow, Harold M.	N/A
1964-05-04	1964	Major	Clayville, Howard G.	N/A
	1966-06-30	Lt. Colonel	Allen, James J.	N/A
1966	1967	Lt. Colonel	McCombs, Ward L.	N/A
	1968-06-20	Lt. Colonel	Kolb, Henry	N/A
1968-06-20		Captain	Truitt, Jerry D.	N/A
Dates are formatted in yyyy-mm-dd to sort correctly. The Cullum Number is the graduation order from the United States Military Academy by year and class rank and links to a page for the officer on the website version of the Cullum Register. Listings without a Cullum Number indicate that the person was not a graduate of the United States Military Academy.

Current Status

Abandoned near St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Location: St. Anthony in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Lat: 51.34917 Long: -55.61083

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Sources:

Cornett, Lloyd H. & Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization (1946-1980), Office of History ADC, Peterson AFB, Colorado, 31 Dec 1980, 179 pages, Pdf, page 104.

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