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General Area: , CA, CA Site Type/Program: Operational - NavyOperational - Navy Location: Brief History: The El Centro complex has one land range and one special use airspace (SUA). Considered part of the SOCAL complex, the Naval Air Facility El Centro provides realistic training to aviation units in air combat training, carrier flight operations, and weapons delivery. Flight operations exceeded 167,000 in 199. El Centros four targets were used in FY-2000 in 11,660 operations with 163,798 total rounds of ordnance expended. El Centro supports two Navy Warfare Areas, five aircraft-carrier strike groups, six aviation wings and squadrons, and non-Navy users.For the first 35 years, the mission of NAF El Centro was devoted to aeronautical escape system testing, evaluation, and design. In November 1947, the Parachute Experimental Division from Lakehurst, New Jersey moved to El Centro. In 1951, the Joint Parachute Facility was established and consisted of the Naval Parachute Unit and the Air Force 6511th Test Group (Parachute). The Air Force remained part of El Centros test organization for the next 27 years. In 1964, the U.S. Naval Aerospace Recovery Facility was designated and on July 1, 1973, it was combined with the Naval Air Facility El Centro to form the National Parachute Test Range. Exactly six years later, the parachute test mission was transferred to Naval Weapons Center China Lake; and El Centro again became a NAF. Today, NAF El Centro provides realistic training to active and reserve aviation units and activities of the Navys operating and training forces. Squadrons visit NAF El Centro to practice gunnery, bombing, carrier landings and air combat. Navy Squadrons visit the Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro to practice gunnery, bombing, carrier landings and air combat. The facility has two operating runways and a remote-controlled target area that allows naval aviators to practice ordnance delivery and a desert range used for air-to-ground bombing, rocket firing, strafing, dummy drops and mobile land target training. NAF El Centro has a unique climate, vast unobstructed desert terrain, limited non-military air traffic and its own dedicated gunnery and bomb ranges which make NAF El Centro an ideal environment for aerial combat maneuvering, air-to-air gunnery, bombing practice and electronic warfare training. |
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