Avon Park Air Force Range
- Avon Park Air Force Range
of land of which about convert|82000|acre|km2 are open to the public for recreation. APAFR includes Avon Park Air Force Auxiliary Field (also known as MacDill AFB Auxilary Field. The airfield consists of an 8000 ft main runway, an operational control tower, an aircraft rescue and firefighting facility, and limited ramp and hangar facilities. There are no published instrument approach procedures and the airfield is limited to VFR operations only.
The host unit for the APAFR is the Deployed Unit Complex (DUC), 23rd Wing, Detachment 1, which is a unit of the 23d Wing (23 WG), an Air Combat Command (ACC) composite fighter and rescue wing located at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. In addition to the Avon Park Air Force Range, the DUC also oversees a flight line facility at nearby MacDill AFB for transient military flight crews, maintenance crews and aircraft utilizing the APAFR. This permits visiting squadrons to have ready access to APAFR while concurrently taking advantage of the more robust billeting and maintenance support capabilities at MacDill. This combination of facilities provides extensive, diversified and convenient training airspace and ranges with unique training capabilities for military air, ground and air-to-ground training.
ee also
* Florida World War II Army Airfields
External links
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/apafr.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/apafr.htm]
* [http://www.avonparkafr.com Avon Park Air Force Range Outdoor Recreation Program]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Avon+Park,+florida&ie=UTF8&ll=27.654338,-81.33316&spn=0.062037,0.11673&t=h&z=13&om=0 APAFR on Google Maps]
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