Naval_Air_Station_New_Orleans

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans

Census-designated place in Louisiana, United States

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.[2] NAS JRB New Orleans is home to a Navy Reserve aggressor squadron and a fleet logistics support squadron, the 159th Fighter Wing (159 FW) of the Louisiana Air National Guard, Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, a detachment of a Marine Corps Reserve light helicopter attack squadron, as well as other US Navy and US Army activities. The base has a 24/7 operating schedule to support both the 159 FW's NORAD air sovereignty/homeland defense requirements and for Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans search and rescue/maritime law enforcement/port security missions. It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field (IATA: NBG, ICAO: KNBG, FAA LID: NBG) which is located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of New Orleans.[3] The base's predecessor, NAS New Orleans, occupied the current location of the University of New Orleans's principal campus until 1957.

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Occupants

Current occupants

Previous occupants

NAS New Orleans in the 1940s, located on the present-day main campus of the University of New Orleans

Facilities

NAS JRB New Orleans (Alvin Callender Field) has two runways with PEM surfaces: 4/22 is 9,999 by 200 feet (3,048 × 61 m) and 14/32 is 6,000 by 200 feet (1,829 × 61 m).[3]

Demographics

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New Orleans Station is a census-designated place (CDP) covering the residential population of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.[8]

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It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 2,508.[11]

2020 census

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Education

The base has a charter K-8 school, Belle Chasse Academy.[12] The school opened on September 5, 2002.[13]

The entire parish is in the Plaquemines Parish School Board school district.[14] The school district schools in Belle Chasse are where the base is assigned to.[12] Belle Chasse High School is the Belle Chasse area high school.

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References

  1. [1]
    FAA Airport Form 5010 for NBG PDF
  2. [2]
    "Belle Chasse CDP, Louisiana[permanent dead link]." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on May 22, 2010.
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    FAA Airport Form 5010 for NBG PDF, effective 2009-07-02.
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    VR-54 "Revelers"
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    Pterogram, Spring 2022 Edition, pages 9-10
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    "New Orleans Military Entrance Processing Station".
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    "New Orleans Station Census Designated Place". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
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    "New Orleans Station Census Designated Place". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
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    "Decennial Census of Population and Housing by Decades". US Census Bureau.
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    "P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – New Orleans Station CDP, Louisiana". United States Census Bureau.
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    "New Orleans Station CDP, Louisiana". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  12. [12]
    "Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans Education". Military One Source. Retrieved 3 March 2024. - The website is a .mil
  13. [13]
    "About Us". Belle Chasse Academy. Retrieved 3 March 2024. Belle Chasse Academy 100 Fifth Street/NAS-JRB Belle Chasse, LA 70037
  14. [14]
    "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Plaquemines Parish, LA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 3 March 2024. New Orleans Station[...]Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans - Text list - The map shows there are no incorporated places in the parish.
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