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Highlands Air Force Station
USAF transmitter call sign: "Jitney"
Part of Air Defense Command
Coordinates40°23′29″N 073°59′38″W / 40.39139°N 73.99389°W / 40.39139; -73.99389 (Highlands AFS P-9)
TypeGeneral Surveillance Radar Station
CodeL-12: 1948 Lashup Radar Network
P-9: 1949 ADC permanent network
Z-9: 1963 July 31 NORAD network
Site information
Controlled byHighlands Air Force Station United States Air Force
Site history
In use1948-1966
Garrison information
Past
commanders
Major Weston F. Griffith (1955-1961)
Garrison 646th AC&W Squadron (1948-1966), 52nd Artillery Brigade (Air Defense) (1960-1963, 1967-1973), 19th Air Defense Artillery Group (1963-1967), 608th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (1942-1945)

Highlands Air Force Station was a military installation in Middletown Township near the borough of Highlands, New Jersey.[1] The station provided ground-controlled interception radar coverage as part of the Lashup Radar Network and the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment network, as well as providing radar coverage for the Highlands Army Air Defense Site. The site's 240 acres (97 ha)[1] is now the Rocky Point section in Hartshorne Woods Park of the Monmouth County Parks System.

The Navesink Military Reservation (also called the Highlands Military Reservation) was added as a historic district to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 October 2015.[2]

The "base of the 646th [squadron] atop the Highlands-Middletown hill overlooking the Navesink river" (published 7 August 1958).[3]
  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference TDR196411-2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Navesink Military Reservation Historic District". National Park Service. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference RBR195808 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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