Naval command · United States

Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility Virginia Capes

Recorded as: FACSFAC VACAPES

The U.S. Navy facility that schedules the Navy's offshore operating areas off Virginia and the Carolinas.

Naval commands announce the areas and times of exercises, firings and other operations that other ships should avoid. The same areas are often used again and again, so the archive shows how regularly a range is active.

What the archive holds

45 messages in this archive record FACSFAC VACAPES as their authority, issued from 1999-10-02 to 2023-03-16. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Exercises accounts for 40 of 45 recorded messages (89%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA IV.

Located messages lie in 1 sea area, most often North Atlantic Ocean.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (43) and HYDROLANT (2).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 43

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA IV 293/23 · Other2023-03-15
    Virginia cancel NAVAREA IV 291/23 and this msg, msg promulgated in error
  2. NAVAREA IV 292/23 · Other2023-03-15
    Cancel NAVAREA IV 290/23 and this msg, msg promulgated in error
  3. NAVAREA IV 291/23 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2023-03-15
    Hazardous operations 201730Z to 202030Z mar in area bound by: 36-49.0N 075-30.0W, 36-48.0N 075-00.0W,…
  4. NAVAREA IV 290/23 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2023-03-15
    Hazardous operations 0001Z to 2359Z daily 20 thru 26 mar in area bound by: 34-17.0N 076-45.0W, 33-49.0N…
  5. NAVAREA IV 1264/22 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2022-11-30
    Hazardous operations: a. 1700Z to 0300Z daily 30 nov and 01 dec in area bound by 36-49.00N 075-30.00W,…
  6. NAVAREA IV 583/22 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2022-06-20
    Hazardous operations: a. 200400Z to 270400Z jun in area bound by 34-17.50N 076-45.20W, 33-49.90N 076-30.60W,…
  7. NAVAREA IV 580/22 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2022-06-20
    Hazardous operations: a. 200001Z to 270001Z jun in area bound by 34-17.50N 076-45.20W, 33-49.90N 076-30.60W,…
  8. NAVAREA IV 951/21 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2021-10-20
    Hazardous operations: a. 200000Z to 240001Z oct in area bound by 34-17N 076-45W, 33-49N 076-30W, 33-33N…

Earliest in the archive

  1. NAVAREA IV 340/99 · Exercises1999-10-01
    Gunnery exercises 060001Z to 082359Z oct in area between 38-30N 39-30N and 071-26W 068-30W

Other naval commands in NAVAREA IV

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.