Coordinates: 27°54′04″N098°03′06″W / 27.90111°N 98.05167°W
A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.
| NALF Orange Grove | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | United States Navy | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Jim Wells County, near Orange Grove, Texas | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 257 ft / 78 m | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1] | |||||||||||||||
Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Orange Grove or NALF Orange Grove( ICAO : KNOG, FAA LID : NOG) is a military airport located southwest of Orange Grove, a city in Jim Wells County, Texas, United States. It was commissioned in 1951, and covers an area of 1,373 acres (5.56 km2). Owned by the United States Navy, it supports pilot training for NAS Kingsville. It has two runways, 1/19 and 13/31, each measuring 8,000 x 200 ft (2,438 x 61 m). [1] [2]
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a governmental body of the United States with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation in that nation as well as over its surrounding international waters. Its powers include the construction and operation of airports, air traffic management, the certification of personnel and aircraft, and the protection of U.S. assets during the launch or re-entry of commercial space vehicles. Powers over neighboring international waters were delegated to the FAA by authority of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, NALF Orange Grove is assigned NOG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA [3] (which assigned NOG to Nogales International Airport in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico [4]
The International Air Transport Association is a trade association of the world’s airlines. Consisting of 290 airlines, primarily major carriers, representing 117 countries, the IATA's member airlines account for carrying approximately 82% of total available seat miles air traffic. IATA supports airline activity and helps formulate industry policy and standards. It is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with Executive Offices in Geneva, Switzerland.
Nogales International Airport is an international airport located at Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexico border. It handles national and international air traffic for the city of Nogales. It is operated by Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, a federal government-owned corporation.
Heroica Nogales, more commonly known as Nogales, is a city and the county seat of the Municipality of Nogales. It is located on the northern border of the Mexican state of Sonora. The city is abutted on its north by the city of Nogales, Arizona, across the U.S.-Mexico border.
