Hofn Air Traffic Control Radar

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Built in 1984 on the grounds of the Hofn Air Station, the present-day ATC Radar system at Hofn started its life as a long-range General Surveillance Radar Station equipped with an AN/FPS-117 radar system and operated by the 932d Air Control Squadron of the US Air Force under direction of NATO. Assuming the airspace monitoring mission of the previous radar suite at the Hofn Air Station, the radar monitored the airspace over the Eastern Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) Gap for fourteen years and relayed any target information to the Keflavik NAS Radar Operations Control Center (ROCC).

Idled from its military role by the withdrawal of US Armed Forces from Iceland in 2006, the station was transferred to the Government of Iceland who are presently utilizing the radar for civilian/commercial air traffic control purposes.

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