![]() ![]() In 1968, the North Omaha Radar Station was officially closed and fully transferred to the Federal Aviation Administration. It featured barracks and family housing, as well as a canteen, commissary and many other buildings in addition to the radars. The station was designed to be a model military installation. Their mission was to operate the Cold War-era Nike-Hercules air-defense missiles located across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. The US Army 6th Missile Battalion, 43rd Artillery moved in in 1960. In the late 1950s, the radar started being used for the national FAA radar network. With exactly 40 acres on the intersection of North 72nd and McKinley Drive, the North Omaha Radar Station was part of a Cold War-focused radar network. This is a history of the facility known as the North Omaha Radar Station.įighting the Cold War in North Omaha A close-up of a radar at the North Omaha Radar Station in 1954. ![]() Located at 11000 North 72nd Street, it was built in 1950 as the Omaha Air Force Station. With sparse housing around it but proximity to a major metropolitan area, a location at North 72nd and Highway 36 in far North Omaha was an ideal location for an outpost. During the 1940s and 1950s, Omaha was the location of several Cold War initiatives outwardly intended to keep the country safe from nuclear war, but ulteriorly designed to frighten and captivate a passive populace. ![]()
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