NAS Pensacola Receives New Instrument Landing System Infrastructure
Client and Project Location: NAVFACSE; Pensacola, FL
PENSACOLA, FL / A new instrument landing system (ILS) infrastructure has been installed in Florida. This project provided construction of the necessary infrastructure and site improvements to support replacement of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) equipment for Runway 07L at NAS Pensacola, FL.
Replacement of the existing ILS with a new generation of equipment will enhance the reliability and functionality of the instrument approach used for all weather operations for training and operational aircraft.
Mission Support Services (MS2) removed the legacy ILS equipment and antennas and demolished the existing concrete antenna foundations, equipment shelter pads, and supporting electrical service.
MS2 constructed new antenna foundations, equipment shelter pads, and access roads and provided new electrical and communication cables to the new glide slope and localizer antennas and equipment shelters and site equipment. This new installation included fiber optic cables, electrical distribution cables, grounding systems and lightning protection systems, electrical and communications manholes and duct banks. New backbone fiber optic cable was installed to connect to the Radar Air Traffic Control Facility (Building 3963) and Air Traffic Control Tower (Building 3962).
Services
- Demolition and Construction at the two primary antenna sites: the glide slope antenna site and the localizer antenna site.
- Site work: grading and drainage, new equipment pads, paved parking areas, grading and turf restoration.
- Utility work: new underground electrical and telecommunications systems.
Challenges and solutions.
This project required work in close proximity to runways, taxiways, and runway end zones which required extreme care and coordinated scheduling around aircraft operating requirements.
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