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The Navy drops nearly 20,000 bombs a year at the site, a few hundred of which are live. The Pinecastle Bombing Range is a fenced 5,760 acres (23.3 km 2) area, with the eastern edge of the range located about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of State Road 19 and the Camp Ocala campgrounds, and one-half mile (800 m) west of the Farles Lake campground.
Pinecastle or Pine Castle may refer to: McCoy Air Force Base (previously Pinecastle Army Airfield), a former United States Air Force base Naval Air Station DeLand (previously Pinecastle Electronic Warfare and Bombing Range), a United States Naval Air Station located in DeLand, Florida from 1942–1946
NAS Cecil Field was named in honor of Commander Henry Barton Cecil, USN, who died in 1933 in the crash of the Navy airship USS Akron.Shortly before the United States' entry into World War II, a 2,600-acre (11 km 2) tract of land was purchased in western Duval County and construction began on the "U.S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Cecil Field" (NAAS Cecil Field).
A continuing impact of both the former Pinecastle AAF, Pinecastle AFB, McCoy Air Force Base, and the former Orlando AAB is the continued excavation of unspent ammunition, including small practice bombs, aerial rockets, and machine gun rounds from the World War II era in the areas northeast of the current Orlando International Airport and east ...
The second largest rifle range in the U.S. was constructed there, but the camp was decommissioned on May 16, 1919. The Florida National Guard began using the site in 1928 and it was renamed Camp J. Clifford R. Foster. In 1939 a group of 10 ex service men traveled to Washington at their own expense to talk the Navy, who was looking for a new ...
Pinecastle Army Airfield, 8.7 miles (14.0 km) south-southeast of Orlando; sub-base of Orlando Army Airbase (1942-1945) AAFSAT Technical Center Transferred to: Air Proving Ground Command (1945) Later: Pinecastle Air Force Base (1951-1958); McCoy Air Force Base (1958-1975) Now: Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO, ICAO: KMCO, FAA LID: MCO)
A Grumman F-14 Tomcat on a platform with the Chief Master at Arms house in the background. The house is now the location of the DeLand Naval Air Station Museum. Nine Mile Point on Lake George was also under NAS DeLand's control and was used as a practice bombing site with a Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina seaplane stationed nearby in the event of an aircraft mishap on the lake.
The Atlantic range had seven transponder arrays located from 550 nmi (630 mi; 1,020 km) to 4,700 nmi (5,400 mi; 8,700 km) down range. [22] The sonobuoy type impact area used a sonobuoy field, typically four rings 3 nmi (3.5 mi; 5.6 km) apart with outside diameter of 20 nmi (23 mi; 37 km), sowed by aircraft and the reference transponder field ...