Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. NAS JRB New Orleans is home to a Navy Reserve aggressor squadron and a fleet logistics support squadron, the 159th Fighter Wing of the Louisiana Air National Guard, Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, a detachment of a Marine Corps Reserve light helicopter attack squadron, as well as other US Navy and US Army activities. The base has a 24/7 operating schedule to support both the 159 FW's NORAD air sovereignty/homeland defense requirements and for Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans search and rescue/maritime law enforcement/port security missions. It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field which is located about six nautical miles 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's principal campus until 1957.

Occupants

Fighter Squadron Composite 204, U.S. Navy Reserve, operating F-5N/F Tiger II fighter-attack aircraft
VMR Belle Chase
159th Fighter Wing, Louisiana Air National Guard, operating F-15C/D Eagle fighter aircraft
Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 54, U.S. Navy Reserve, operating C-130T Hercules transport aircraft
Detachment A, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, operating UH-1Y "Super Huey" utility helicopters & AH-1 Super Cobra attack helicopters
Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, operating MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters
NCTAMS LANT Det New Orleans
3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines
Navy Reserve Center New Orleans
377th Theater Sustainment Command
FRC Mid-Atlantic Site New Orleans
Region Legal Service Office Southeast Det New Orleans

Military Entrance Processing Station, New Orleans
Previous occupants
VAW-77 "Nightwolves", U.S. Navy Reserve, which was the Navy's only aerial counter-narcotics unit, and flew the E-2 Hawkeye
VP-94 "Crawfishers", U.S. Navy Reserve, an anti-submarine warfare/maritime patrol unit that flew the P-3 Orion
VC-13, U.S. Navy Reserve, a fleet adversary unit flying the A-4 Skyhawk; relocated to NAS Miramar, CA
Marine Aircraft Group 46 Detachment B
Marine Aircraft Group 42
926th Fighter Wing, which flew the A-10 Thunderbolt II; relocated to Nellis AFB, NV and re-designated as the 926th Wing, an Associate unit to the USAF Warfare Center
U.S. Customs Service air operations
Civil Air Patrol, SWR-LA-086
Facilities

NAS JRB New Orleans has two runways with PEM surfaces: 4/22 is 9,999 by 200 feet and 14/32 is 6,000 by 200 feet.

New Orleans Station is a census-designated place covering the residential population of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was first listed as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. census.

Race / Ethnicity	Pop 2020	% 2020
White alone	1,161	46.29%
Black or African American alone	587	23.41%
Native American or Alaska Native alone	19	0.76%
Asian alone	90	3.59%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone	17	0.68%
Other Race alone	22	0.88%
Mixed race or Multiracial	159	6.34%
Hispanic or Latino	453	18.06%
Total	2,508	100.00%

It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 2,508.

The base has a charter K-8 school, Belle Chasse Academy. The school opened on September 5, 2002.
The entire parish is in the Plaquemines Parish School Board school district. The school district schools in Belle Chasse are where the base is assigned to. Belle Chasse High School is the Belle Chasse area high school.