Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point

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Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
Aerial view of Cherry Point; in the foreground a Grumman A-6A
Characteristics
ICAO code KNKT
IATA code NKT
Coordinates

34 ° 54 '3 "  N , 76 ° 52' 51"  W Coordinates: 34 ° 54 '3 "  N , 76 ° 52' 51"  W.
Height above MSL 9 m (30  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 6 km northeast of Havelock
Street NC 70 , NC 101
Basic data
opening 1942
operator United States Marine Corps
Runways
5L / 23R 2302 m of asphalt
5R / 23L 2496 m asphalt
14L / 32R 2738 m of asphalt
14R / 32L 2560 m of asphalt

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The Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point or MCAS Cherry Point is a 120 square kilometer large military airfield of the US Marine Corps in the small town of Havelock in Craven County in North Carolina , a state of the United States on the east coast of the country. The base was built in 1941 and has been used as an airfield since 1942, initially under the name Cunningham Field . The 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing is currently stationed there. Due to the length and width of the runways, MCAS Cherry Point was suitable as an emergency landing site for possible false starts of the space shuttle in Cape Canaveral , Florida .

Stationed units

  • Headquarters of the Commander Marine Corps Air Bases East
  • Combat Logistics Company 21
  • Marine Air Control Group 28
  • Marine Aircraft Group 14 with 4 operational and one retraining squadron McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
  • 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing
  • Marine Wing Support Group 27

MCAS Cherry Point also maintains the MCALF Bogue landing site in Bogue .

  • MCAS Cherry Point

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MCAS Cherry Point History. (No longer available online.) Militarynewcomers.com, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 13, 2013 (English): "Cherry Point's runway system is so large that the air station serves as an alternate emergency-landing site for space shuttle launches out of Cape Canaveral, Fla."

Web links

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