Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Orange Grove

Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Orange Grove or NALF Orange Grove (ICAO: KNOG, FAA LID: NOG) is a military airport located southwest of Orange Grove, a city in Jim Wells County, Texas, United States. It was commissioned in 1951, and covers an area of 1,373 acres (5.56 km2). Owned by the United States Navy, it supports pilot training for NAS Kingsville. It has two runways, 1/19 and 13/31, each measuring 8,000 x 200 ft (2,438 x 61 m).[1][2]

NALF Orange Grove
Summary
Airport typeMilitary
OwnerUnited States Navy
LocationJim Wells County, near Orange Grove, Texas
Elevation AMSL257 ft / 78 m
Map
NOG
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
1/19 8,000 2,438 PEM
13/31 8,000 2,438 PEM

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, NALF Orange Grove is assigned NOG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned NOG to Nogales International Airport in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico[4]

References
  1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for NOG PDF, effective 2007-12-20
  2. Airfield Condition Survey: NALF Orange Grove, June 2003 (DOC)
  3. KNOG - NALF Orange Grove - Orange Grove, Texas at Great Circle Mapper
  4. NOG / MMNG - Nogales International Airport - Nogales, Sonora, México at Great Circle Mapper).



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