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A 500-pound "live bomb" explodes on a target at the U.S. Navy Pinecastle Range Complex in the Ocala National Forest, north of Altoona.
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
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 range is affiliated with the U.S. Navy's Pinecastle Bombing Range located in the Ocala National Forest just west of Lake George. The bombing ranges date back to World War II , when the Navy built bomb targets in Lake George and nearby Crescent Lake, and stationed personnel in the area to maintain the targets and perform search and rescue ...
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A former military bombing range in Madera County was pounded by bombs from Army and Navy aircraft 20 years before it became a pricey subdivision with sprawling ranch-style homes on large lots.
On the evening of June 26, 1991, he and his navigator and bombardier, lieutenant John Fellowes, flew from Oceana Naval Air Station to conduct a practice bombing run in a Grumman A-6 Intruder on the Pine Castle Warfare Range in the Ocala National Forest. [6] [7] A thunderstorm was occurring at the time. [7]