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X-Plane 10 Scenery--Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans (KNPG), Louisiana (LA), USA), v1.0. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. NAS JRB New Orleans is home to the 159th Fighter Wing, USCG Air Station New Orleans, a Marine Corps Reserve unit as well as other US Navy and US Army activities. The base has a 24/7 operating schedule to support both the 159th FWsNORAD air defense/homeland security requirements and for Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans search and rescue/maritime law enforcement missions. It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field (IATA: NBG, ICAO: KNBG, FAA LID: NBG) which is located 3 nm (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 principal campus until 1957. By Freddy De Pues.