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| Hastings Air Force Station 625th Radar Squadron |
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| This station, operated by the 625th Radar Squadron, was positioned East of Hastings on the grounds of the former Blaine Naval Ammunition Depot. The depot itself was a massive area of bunkers and buildings while the radar station was set up in the extreme northwest of the site near Highway 6. In 1962 an AN/FPS-67B search radar and two AN/FPS-6 height-finder radars were built at the site. Hastings AFS was also home to Detatchment 10 of the Strategic Air Command Tenth Bomb Scoring Squadron. Hastings has been referenced by Lincoln AFB B-47 crews as a practice target during the early 1960's. Gap filler radar stations (radars of less powerful capability) were to be deployed near Belgrade and Bloomfield, Nebraska and also near Mankato, Kansas but these were never built. The station closed in September 1968. More information is given at www.radomes.org/museum |
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| The base of the AN/FPS-67B search radar (now long since removed). Atop this structure during the 1960's, a white protective dome would have been apparent. This site is directly viewable from the DLD State Recreation Area off of Highway 6 east of Hastings, Nebraska. However the site is on private property and is protected by a guard dog. | ||||||||||||||
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| A picture of buildings positioned nearby the radar base. Note the concrete windowless buildings on the left. Within these buildings radar observers watched the Nebraska skies during the 1960's guarding against air attack. This site, along with Omaha AFS, was tied into the massive SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) inteceptor control program constructed during the late 50s and early 60s. Information from here was fed to either the Olathe, KS or Sioux City, IA SAGE control centers. SAGE was one of the US's first computer networks. | ||||||||||||||
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