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Canadian Forces Station Kamloops (ADC ID: SM-153/C-153) is a closed General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 12.8 miles (20.6 km) northeast of Kamloops, British Columbia. It was closed in 1988.
It was operated as part of the Pinetree Line network controlled by NORAD.

It's possibly a fire lookout now?nnThe movie "Cadence" was filmed here with Charlie and Martin sheen. nwww.imdb.com/title/tt0101531/
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFS_Kamloops
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Coordinates:   50°48'8"N   120°7'33"W

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  • CFS Kamloops was constructed in 1957 to augment the Pinetree Line and provide more thorough aircraft control and warning to the air defence systems. It became operational the following year when radar and communications gear were installed, but it was only used on a limited basis. The resident unit, 825th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron, United States Air Force, arrived and the station was declared limited operational on 3 December 1958 with early warning status reports being forwarded to 5 Air Division in Vancouver. They were declared fully operational on 2 March 1959 and reported to the 25th Air Division at McChord AFB in Tacoma Washington. The station was handed over to the RCAF on 1 April 1962 and the new occupants of the station were designated 56 Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron, RCAF Station Kamloops. 56 AC&W took over the duties of providing radar coverage for their assigned area. They were also SAGE-capable on 1 May 1963. As a result of unification the RCAF Station was re-designated CFS Kamloops, and the Air Defence Command unit changed their name to 56 Radar Squadron. Then it became Canadian Forces Station Kamloops on 10 August 1967. In August 1984, Kamloops was brought on-line with Canada West ROCC. The men and women of 56 Radar Squadron carried on at Kamloops until new government direction brought about the creation of the North Warning System. CFS Kamloops was officially closed on 1 April 1988. The radar installation (operations site) was located on top of Mt Lolo, while the base camp (domestic site) was located about 10 km down the access road. The buildings were still in existance in 1997 but have since been removed. The city of Kamloops established a memorial to the radar station. The last search antenna to be used at CFS Kamloops, an FPS-20, was moved to Riverside Park, while the radome is used for crop storage at a local ginseng farm. Currently, Telus has a communication installation on the site. And a forest fire lookout was located here before the radar station was built.
  • The domestic site was named "McNair Heights", after Group Captain Buck McNair, RCAF.
  • What happen to Ross Moore Lake? In 1987 Major Dunsdon, who was Base Commander at the time, order to be built a log cabin for the man so they can go fishing and hunting..... Who does own it now? Who use it now? Does it still on military land? or else?
  • Was talking with a person , and we were saying ,what about the cabin built on tax dime , the departing SC decides retirement , so let get into GINSENG , so off we go with keys and equipment make some farm land . Not lick of oh thats not right lots of rumbling though .That cabin new windows new stove built in house .
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