Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Orange Grove or NALF Orange Grove is a military

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

located southwest of Orange Grove, a city in Jim Wells County,

Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...

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. It was commissioned in 1951, and covers an area of . Owned by the

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, it supports pilot training for NAS Kingsville. It has two

runway In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. Runways may be a human-made surface (often asphalt concrete, asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (sod, ...

s, 1/19 and 13/31, each measuring 8,000 x 200 ft (2,438 x 61 m). Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

location identifier A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for staffed air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer program ...

for the FAA and

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, NALF Orange Grove is assigned NOG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned NOG to Nogales International Airport in

Nogales, Sonora Heroica Nogales (), more commonly known as Nogales, is a city and the county seat of the Municipality of Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora. It is located in the north of the state across the U.S.-Mexico border, and is abutted on its north ...

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NOG / MMNG - Nogales International Airport - Nogales, Sonora, México
at Great Circle Mapper).

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at GlobalSecurity.org * Airports in Texas Buildings and structures in Jim Wells County, Texas Orange Grove {{Texas-airport-stub