Former Langanes Air Station (H-2A) (Fagranes)

 air traffic control tower, former air force base, early warning radar

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Built in 1992 atop the summit of Gunnolfvikursfjall, the second iteration of the Langanes Air Station was a long-range General Surveillance Radar Station equipped with an AN/FPS-117 radar system and operated by the 667th Air Control Squadron of the US Air Force under direction of NATO. Assuming the airspace monitoring mission of the previous H-2 site which had been knocked offline by a Winter storm in January of 1961 and not rebuilt, the Langanes H-2A site monitored the airspace over the Eastern Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) Gap for fourteen years.

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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