NAVAL AIR STATION KINGSVILLE

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FACILITIES & SERVICES

Air Operations Department

Phone: (361) 516-6125 / DSN: 876-6125 e Air Operations Department manages the airfield and provides services to support operations of activity, tenant, and transit¬ing aircraft; provides fire fighting functions, both structural and fire and rescue; provides air traffic control; operates the air terminal; schedules administrative and pro- ficiency flights; repairs and maintains station ground electronics equipment; stores, maintains, and issues assigned ordnance and munitions; and operates firing and aerial target ranges, bombing ranges, and Navy Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) Orange Grove. e Air Operations Department is comprised of five divisions: Air Traffic Control, Ground Electronics, Field Support, NALF Orange Grove, and the McMullen Target Range located in Freer, Texas. Air Ops also includes the command BASH program and Community Planning. e Air Operations Department supported 244,439 Air Traffic Control (ATC) operations during 2011. Air Ops also managed all operations and field functions for the 2012 "Wings Over South Texas" Air Show, hosting more than 100,000 visitors over the threeday period

Air Traffic Control - e NAS Kingsville Air Traffic Control Division handles the day-to-day aircraft operations at NAS Kingsville and Navy Auxiliary Landing Field Orange Grove. e department consists of 70 active-duty Navy air traffic controllers (ACs) and four contract personnel. In 2011, the ATC staff handled 149,812 flight operations.

Control Tower - e NAS Kingsville control tower issues clearances and information to aircraft and vehicular traffic on runways, taxiways, and other designated areas of the airfield in addition to aircraft operating in the assigned airspace. Airborne traffic controlled by the tower includes visual flight rules (VFR) and instrument flight rules (IFR) traffic released to local control jurisdic- tion. Manual (non-radar) approach control services can also be provided from the control tower.

Radar - e function of the Radar Branch is to provide radar air traffic control services to both IFR and VFR air traffic within the command's assigned airspace.

Approach Control Radar - An $11.3 National Air Space Modification project was completed in 2010 for the Approach Control Radar facility. e project upgraded NAS Kingsville's Air Traffic Control (ATC) capabilities from analog to digital and transformed the command's ATC facilities to the most-modern in the Navy.

Flight Planning - e Flight Planning Branch of ATC provides for flight planning, receiving and processing inbound and outbound flight information, and