The Avon Park Air Force Range, which includes MacDill Air Force Base Auxiliary Field, is a United States Air Force bombing range and air-ground training complex in the U.S. state of Florida located in Polk and Highlands Counties, approximately 65 miles east of Tampa and east of the city of Avon Park.OverviewAvon Park Air Force Range consists of approximately 106,000 acres which are primarily used for military air-to-ground training operations. Overlying this acreage is an area of restricted airspace designated R-2901. It is one of only a few active Air Force bombing ranges that are located on the eastern coast of the United States. About 82,000 acres are open to the public for hunting, fishing and recreation when military missions allow, typically on the weekends. In the wake of heightened security measures following worldwide terrorist attacks, the military usually uses the range Monday through Friday.APAFR serves as the primary air-to-ground training and ordnance delivery range for the F-16s of the 482nd Fighter Wing at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, and an alternate range for the A-10s of the 23rd Wing's 23rd Fighter Group at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. It is also used by HC-130 and HH-60 aircraft of the 23rd Wing's 347th Rescue Group, also at Moody AFB, and those of the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida for air-to-ground combat search and rescue and Personnel Recovery training.
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