FPS-26

Height Finder

Detail:

Avco Corporation built this height-finder radar that operated at a frequency of 5400 to 5900 MHz. This radar was deployed in the 1960s. This equipment operated on the C-band and was used in SAGE operations at a number of Pinetree Line radar stations.

Locations:

Alsask, SK

44 Radar Squadron

FPS-26

 

Armstrong, ON

38 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

1963-1974

Baldy Hughes, BC

54 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

1964-1975

Barrington, NS

23 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

 

Beaverbank, NS

22 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

 

Dana, SK

45 Radar Squadron

FPS-26

 

Gander, NF

226 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

 

Gypsumville, MB

47 Radar Squadron

FPS-26

 

Lowther, ON

639 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26A

1963-

Moisie, QC

211 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26A

1963-

Pagwa, ON

37 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

 

Penhold, AB

43 Radar Squadron

FPS-26

 

Puntzi Mountain, BC

55 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

1963-

Ramore, ON

35 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

 

Sioux Lookout, ON

39 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26A

1963-

Sydney, NS

221 AC&W Squadron

FPS-26

 

Yorkton, SK

46 Radar Squadron

FPS-26

 

Photos:


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  1. Memorial AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna in Kapuskasing, ON - 1998.
    Courtesy of Julie Latimer.

  2. Memorial AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna in Kapuskasing, ON - 1998.
    Courtesy of Julie Latimer.

  3. Memorial AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna in Kapuskasing, ON - 1998.
    Courtesy of Julie Latimer.

  4. Memorial AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna in Kapuskasing, ON - 1998.
    Courtesy of Julie Latimer.

  5. Memorial AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna in Kapuskasing, ON - 1998.
    Courtesy of Julie Latimer.

  6. Memorial AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna in Kapuskasing, ON - 1998.
    Courtesy of Julie Latimer.

  7. Memorial AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna in Kapuskasing, ON - 1998.
    Courtesy of Julie Latimer.

  8. AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna.
    Courtesy of Gene McManus.

  9. AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna.
    Courtesy of Gene McManus.

  10. AN/FPS-26 height finder radar antenna.
    Courtesy of Gene McManus.

 

Updated: February 23, 2002