CALI Strong Sports Gear At The Navy Exchange Imperial Beach

CALI Strong Sports Gear on sale at the Main Navy Exchange Imperial Beach. Imperial Beach is known as “The Helicopter Capital of the World”. Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach or NOLF Imperial Beach is a United States Navy facility for helicopters, situated on 1,204 acres approximately 14 miles south of San Diego and within the city of Imperial Beach, California.

Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach’s purpose is to handle the overflow of helicopter squadron traffic using both Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), from North Island. As a result, the helicopter squadrons at North Island do 95 percent of their operations at Imperial Beach.

Naval Air Station North Island operates two other airfields in the Southern California region. One is Naval Auxiliary Landing Facility (NALF) San Clemente Island, located 70 miles northwest of San Diego in the California Channel Islands. The other is Outlying Field (OLF) Imperial Beach, located 10 miles south of the base on the U.S.-Mexican border. Naval Air Station North Island and Outlying Field Imperial Beach are both a part of Naval Base Coronado. The Operations Department with over 250 personnel handles over 11,800 flight operations every month at North Island and 23,400 at Outlying Field Imperial Beach.

This small (5,000 foot runway) facility hosts most of the Navy Pacific Fleet helicopter training, especially precision approach radar (PAR) and traffic pattern training. PAR is a type of radar guidance system designed to provide lateral and vertical guidance to an aircraft pilot for landing,