The Pinetree Line was a series of radar stations located across southern Canada at about the 50th parallel north, along with a number of other stations...
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and Alaska. The first of these was the joint Canadian-United States Pinetree Line, which ran from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island just north of the Canada–United...
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Pine tree (disambiguation) (redirect from Pinetree (disambiguation))
dictionary. Pine trees are coniferous trees in the genus Pinus. Pine tree or pinetree may also refer to: Pine Tree (album), by South Korean singer Kangta, released...
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America. It was built to supplement the Pinetree Line, which was located farther south. The majority of Mid-Canada Line stations were used only briefly from...
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CFB Gander (section Pinetree Line Radar site)
General Surveillance radar station near the airfield as part of the Pinetree Line, designated "N-25". The new station was reassigned in 1953 to the Royal...
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system was first proposed in 1952 to send information along the isolated Pinetree Line stations on the Labrador coast. This led to an initial proposal to use...
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RCAF Station Beaver Bank was a long-range Pinetree Line early warning radar station operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force, located in central Nova...
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Station Saglek is a Royal Canadian Air Force radar base in the former Pinetree Line and currently part of the North Warning System, located near Saglek...
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on the first troposcatter system, the Pole Vault system that linked Pinetree Line radar systems along the coast of Labrador. Using troposcatter reduced...
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Line. Other examples (Pinetree Line) have since been built with even better performance. An alternative early warning design was the Mid-Canada Line,...
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RCAF Station St. Sylvestre (section Pinetree Line)
St. Sylvestre (RCAF ADC ID: C-6) was a Radar station of the Canadian Pinetree Line, located at Saint-Sylvestre, Quebec, in the Lotbinière Region, sixty-nine...
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across North America's polar region. It replaced the Distant Early Warning Line system in the late 1980s. The NWS consists of both long range AN/FPS-117...
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a code-name for the troposcatter communications network used by the Pinetree Line air defence radars in the northern states of North America. This disambiguation...
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RCAF Detachment Gananoque Canada portal Staff Writer c.1942, p. 22 The DEW LINE Sites in Canada, Alaska & Greenland Staff writer (c. 1942). Pilots Handbook...
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Kurt to collect data about the weather. In the original plans for the Pinetree Line (a series of radar stations along the 50th parallel north), Cape Chidley...
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bomber forces. In 1951 the Pinetree Line was established north of the US-Canada border, and in 1953 Canada built the Mid-Canada Line, which was manned by the...
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Côté, Ontario. It was closed in 1987. It was operated as part of the Pinetree Line network controlled by NORAD. As a result of the Cold War and with the...
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a United States Army Air Forces operation, that pre-dated the later Pinetree Line radar bases that were erected shortly thereafter focussing on the cold-war...
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Radar picket (section Kammhuber Line)
the DEW Line into Alaska and Greenland. These were the Pinetree Line (1951), the Mid-Canada Line (1956), and the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line (1957)...
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the community of Lingan Road, Nova Scotia. It was operational as a Pinetree Line radar station from April 1954 to January 1991. For Information on the...
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Command manual network of radar stations prior to deployment of SAGE Pinetree Line, a series of radar stations located across southern Canada at about...
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arrangements were settled by Canada taking on the staffing and funding of 11 Pinetree Line radar stations within Canada that had formerly been operated and funded...
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The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada...
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British Columbia. It was closed in 1988. It was operated as part of the Pinetree Line network controlled by NORAD. As a result of the Cold War and with the...
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Moosonee became the site of RCAF Station Moosonee that was part of NORAD's Pinetree Line chain of radar stations. It closed in 1975 and some of its buildings...
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radar stations along coastal Labrador as part of the Pinetree Line, Mid-Canada Line and DEW Line systems. Today, the remaining stations are automated...
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community of St. Margarets, New Brunswick. It was operational as a Pinetree Line radar station from November 1953 to April 1988 and as a satellite tracking...
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lost their air defence role. At the same time, the Pinetree Line, the Mid-Canada Line and the DEW Line radar stations, largely operated by the RCAF, were...
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Lookout, Ontario. It was closed in 1987. It was operated as part of the Pinetree Line network controlled by NORAD. As a result of the Cold War and with the...
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100–108. Gummeson, Ray. "RCAF F-86 and U-2 Encounters." (archived) Pinetree Line Website, March 2004. Retrieved: 25 October 2012. Pedlow & Welzenbach...
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