NORAD Sergeant David L. Pitcher Complex (City of North Bay)

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Named in honor of Sgt. David Lindsay Pitcher, who was killed along with the rest of his E-3B Airborne Warning and Control System crew in a crash near Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska on Sept. 22, 1995, the NORAD Sgt. David L. Pitcher Complex is the current headquarters of the Canadian NORAD Region. Manned by the 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, the facility is responsible for airspace monitoring and control over the Canadian Air Defense Sector (CADS), as well as Northern U.S. and Canadian maritime approaches, maritime areas and inland waterways.

As one of three NORAD Region command centers, crew at the David L. Pritcher Complex monitor man-made objects in space and the detection, validation, and warning of attack against North America whether by aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles to ensure the air sovereignty and air defense of the airspace of Canada and the United States. The station is also the operational headquarters and primary data recipient of data from the 54 station North Warning System early-warning radar network that stretches from Western Alaska across Canada to the Southeast coast of Labrador.

Activated in October of 2006, the "topside" facility assumed the role carried out by the nearby underground Regional Sector Air Operations Centre, which had operated continuously since 1963 and is now in reserve status.

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