Avalon Army Intelligence Division
Location: Nellis Air Force Base
Nellis Air Force Base was established in 1940 and is the largest landbased
military range in the United States. The Nellis Ranges occupies approx.
three million acres of high Nevada desert near Las Vegas, Nevada.
About one fourth of the site lies within the Desert National Wildlife Refuge,
which was established in 1936 to protect the Desert Bighorn Sheep.
Nellis is bordered by other (public) federal lands, including the Department
of Energy's Yucca Mountain Site and the Nevada Test Site.
Nellis encompasses large portions of Clark, Lincoln
and Nye counties in southern Nevada. Small portions of Iron and Washington
counties in southwest Utah are also covered by special use airspace assigned
to the Nellis Base.
Supersonic flight is apporved throughout most of
the special use airspace assigned to the Nellis Range; exceptions include
portions of the Nevada Test Site, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge and
the southeastern and northeastern sections of the Desert Military Operations
Area (Desert MOA). According to the Air Force, approximately 70%
of the Nellis Range Complex (airsapce) is authorized for supersonic flight,
and many of these supersonic flight areas directly impact rural communities,
Indian lands, State parks, and State and federal wildlife management areas
and refuges.
The primary mission of Nellis is the training of
pilots and flight crews in realistic air
combat excercises.
Area 1
Area
2 (Lake Mead Base)
Area
3
Area 13
Area
19
Area 20 (Schooner)
Basecamp
Airfield
Buggy
Cabroilet
Central
Nevada Test Area and Project Shoal Site
Clean Slat 1, 2, 3
Daony Boy
Double Tracks
Frenchman Flat
GMX
Groom
Dry Lake Test Facility
Little Feller I & II
Nellis
Airspace
Nevada
Test Site
North
Range
Notice
of Intent to Prepare a Legislative Environmental Inpact Statement for Nellis
Air Force Range (NAFR)
Renewal,
Nevada
Plutonium Valley
Rainier Mesa
Small Boy Plume
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