Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. NAS JRB New Orleans is home to a Navy Reserve strike fighter squadron and a fleet logistics support squadron, the 159th Fighter Wing of the Louisiana Air National Guard, Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, a detachment of a Marine Corps Reserve light helicopter attack squadron, as well as other US Navy & US Army activities. The base has a 24/7 operating schedule to support both the 159 FW's NORAD air sovereignty/homeland defense requirements and for Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans search and rescue/maritime law enforcement/port security missions. It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field which is located three nautical miles south of the central business district of New Orleans. The base's predecessor, NAS New Orleans, occupied the current location of the University of New Orleans's principal campus until 1957.Occupants
Current occupants
- Strike Fighter Squadron 204, U.S. Navy Reserve, operating F/A-18 Hornet fighter-attack aircraft
- VMR Belle Chase
- 159th Fighter Wing, Louisiana Air National Guard, operating F-15C/D Eagle fighter aircraft
- Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 54, U.S. Navy Reserve, operating C-130T Hercules transport aircraft
- Detachment A, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, operating UH-1Y "Super Huey" utility helicopters & AH-1 Super Cobra attack helicopters
- Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, operating MH-65C Dolphin helicopters
- NCTAMS LANT Det New Orleans
- 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines
- Navy Operational Support Center New Orleans
- 377th Theater Sustainment Command
- FRC Mid-Atlantic Site New Orleans
- Region Legal Service Office Southeast Det New Orleans
- Civil Air Patrol, SWR-LA-086
Previous occupants
- VAW-77 "Nightwolves", U.S. Navy Reserve, which was the Navy's only aerial counter-narcotics unit, and flew the E-2 Hawkeye
- VP-94 "Crawfishers", U.S. Navy Reserve, an anti-submarine warfare/maritime patrol unit that flew the P-3 Orion
- VC-13, U.S. Navy Reserve, a fleet adversary unit flying the A-4 Skyhawk; relocated to NAS Miramar, CA
- Marine Aircraft Group 46 Detachment B
- Marine Aircraft Group 42
- 926th Fighter Wing, which flew the A-10 Thunderbolt II; relocated to Nellis AFB, NV and re-designated as the 926th Wing, an Associate unit to the USAF Warfare Center
- U.S. Customs Service air operations
Facilities
NAS JRB New Orleans has two runways with PEM surfaces: 4/22 is 9,999 by 200 feet and 14/32 is 6,000 by 200 feet.
