AIR Semmerzake

Quartier Capitaine aviateur de Hemptinne. Heverlee/Gravere/Semmerzake - Semmerzake Air Traffic Control Center which -- is coördinating between civil and mlitary airtraffic with appx 250 personnel, -- is assisting in case of aircraft emergencies and SAR -- is training the future airtraffic controllers. SATCC is operating a fixbased Marconi S-723 D-Band,long range, 3D surveillance radar http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Militaire_Air_Traffic_Control_-_Semmerzake_-_Belgi%C3%AB.jpg Historical After WW2 started in 1951 as a tentbased unit operating a mobile AMES radar 1956: underground facilities operational 1963: establishment of Traffic Control Centre 1966: tacticall Belga radar activated 1973: establishment of SEROS I automated system 1980: new General Electric 3D radar operational 1995: Air Traffic Control Centre activated 1999: temporarily Aegis Site Emulater system installation 2000: NATO financed S-723 radar operational 2001: ATC school integrated 2003: SEROS II system operational

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