Launch or test range · United States

Naval Air Warfare Center

Recorded as: NAVAIRWARCEN

The U.S. Navy's air warfare test centre, recorded under its short name in older messages.

Launch and test ranges announce the sea areas that may be dangerous during a rocket launch, a missile test or the recovery of spent stages: where parts may fall, and in which time windows. Their warnings are among the most precisely defined in the archive — polygons with start and end times that cancel themselves when the last window closes.

What the archive holds

31 messages in this archive record NAVAIRWARCEN as their authority, issued from 2000-06-02 to 2016-05-07. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Exercises accounts for 17 of 31 recorded messages (55%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

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

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

They reached this archive through NAVAREA XII (29) and HYDROPAC (2).

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA XII 29

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA XII 128/16 · Missiles · North Pacific Ocean2016-05-06
    Hazardous operations 1900Z to 0159Z commencing daily 09 thru 11 may, 1200Z to 1959Z daily 12 and 13 may in…
  2. NAVAREA XII 73/16 · Missiles2016-03-11
    Cancel NAVAREA XII 72/16 and this msg, operations canceled
  3. NAVAREA XII 72/16 · Missiles · North Pacific Ocean2016-03-10
    Hazardous operations 2000Z to 0230Z commencing daily 14 thru 16 mar in area bound by 33-38N 120-31W, 33-23N…
  4. NAVAREA XII 63/16 · Missiles · North Pacific Ocean2016-03-04
    Hazardous operations 1400Z to 2100Z daily 09 and 10 mar in area bound by 33-38N 120-31W, 33-23N 120-10W,…
  5. NAVAREA XII 363/15 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2015-11-02
    Hazardous operations
  6. NAVAREA XII 145/15 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2015-04-20
    Hazardous operations
  7. NAVAREA XII 88/15 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2015-03-08
    Hazardous operations
  8. NAVAREA XII 72/15 · Missiles2015-02-22
    Cancel NAVAREA XII 64/15 and this msg, operations completed

Earliest in the archive

  1. NAVAREA XII 196/00 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2000-06-02
    Hazardous operations 091030Z to 091930Z and 101930Z to 102130Z jun in area bound by 32-53N 119-13W, 32-45N…

Other launch or test ranges in NAVAREA XII

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

Naval Air Warfare Center — navigational warnings it issued · seahazards