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New Orleans Station, Louisiana

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. NAS JRB New Orleans is home to a Navy Reserve aggressor squadron and a fleet logistics support squadron, the 159th Fighter Wing (159 FW) of the Louisiana Air National Guard, Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, a detachment of a Marine Corps Reserve light helicopter attack squadron, as well as other US Navy and US Army activities. The base has a 24/7 operating schedule to support both the 159 FW's NORAD air sovereignty/homeland defense requirements and for Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans search and rescue/maritime law enforcement/port security missions. It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field (IATA: NBG, ICAO: KNBG, FAA LID: NBG) which is located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of New Orleans. The base's predecessor, NAS New Orleans, occupied the current location of the University of New Orleans's principal campus until 1957.

Occupants

Current occupants

Fighter Squadron Composite 204 (VFC-204), U.S. Navy Reserve, operating F-5N/F Tiger II fighter-attack aircraft
VMR Belle Chase
159th Fighter Wing (159 FW), Louisiana Air National Guard, operating F-15C/D Eagle fighter aircraft
Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 54 (VR-54), U.S. Navy Reserve, operating C-130T Hercules transport aircraft
Detachment A, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773 (HMLA-773), U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, operating UH-1Y "Super Huey" utility helicopters & AH-1 Super Cobra attack helicopters
Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, operating MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters
NCTAMS LANT Det New Orleans
3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines
Navy Reserve Center New Orleans
377th Theater Sustainment Command
FRC Mid-Atlantic Site New Orleans
Region Legal Service Office Southeast Det New Orleans
Navy Air Logistics Office
Military Entrance Processing Station (a.k.a. MEPS), New Orleans

Previous occupants

VAW-77 "Nightwolves", U.S. Navy Reserve, which was the Navy's only aerial counter-narcotics unit, and flew the E-2 Hawkeye
VP-94 "Crawfishers", U.S. Navy Reserve, an anti-submarine warfare/maritime patrol unit that flew the P-3 Orion
VC-13, U.S. Navy Reserve, a fleet adversary unit flying the A-4 Skyhawk; relocated to NAS Miramar, CA (redesignated VFC-13 and relocated to NAS Fallon, NV) flying the F-5 Tiger II)
Marine Aircraft Group 46 Detachment B
Marine Aircraft Group 42
926th Fighter Wing (Air Force Reserve Command), which flew the A-10 Thunderbolt II; relocated to Nellis AFB, NV and re-designated as the 926th Wing, an Associate unit to the USAF Warfare Center
U.S. Customs Service air operations
Civil Air Patrol, SWR-LA-086

Facilities

NAS JRB New Orleans (Alvin Callender Field) has two runways with PEM surfaces: 4/22 is 9,999 by 200 feet (3,048 × 61 m) and 14/32 is 6,000 by 200 feet (1,829 × 61 m).

Demographics

New Orleans Station CDP
Census-designated place


Coordinates: 29°49′53″N 90°01′16″W / 29.83139°N 90.02111°W / 29.83139; -90.02111
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	Plaquemines
Elevation	0 ft (0 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	2,508
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID	2804360

New Orleans Station is a census-designated place (CDP) covering the residential population of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Historical population
Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2020	2,508		—
U.S. Decennial Census 2020

It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 2,508.

2020 census

**New Orleans Station CDP, Louisiana – Racial and ethnic composition**
*Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.*
Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)	Pop 2020	% 2020
White alone (NH)	1,161	46.29%
Black or African American alone (NH)	587	23.41%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)	19	0.76%
Asian alone (NH)	90	3.59%
Pacific Islander alone (NH)	17	0.68%
Other Race alone (NH)	22	0.88%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)	159	6.34%
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	453	18.06%
Total	2,508	100.00%

Education

The base has a charter K-8 school, Belle Chasse Academy. The school opened on September 5, 2002.

The entire parish is in the Plaquemines Parish School Board school district. The school district schools in Belle Chasse are where the base is assigned to. Belle Chasse High School is the Belle Chasse area high school.