Three VOR navigation aids are available to assist aircraft in and out of all civilian and military airports in North Texas. The busiest airports in the area are Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
Each VOR navigation aid is named after a local professional sports team. In this case, COWBOY is named after the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.
The COWBOY VOR/DME (FAA identifier CVE) is located in an industrial area about 10 miles northwest of downtown Dallas TX.
From Airnav.com: (
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"Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA
FAA Identifier: DFW
Lat/Long:
32-53-50.0336N / 097-02-15.7018W
32-53.833893N / 097-02.261697W
. . .
Airport Operations
Airport use: Open to the public
Activation date: 01/1974
Control tower: yes
. . .
Nearby radio navigation aids
VOR radial/distance VOR name Freq
TTT r359/1.7 MAVERICK VOR/DME 113.10
CVE r268/6.8 COWBOY VOR/DME 116.20
FUZ r080/7.2 RANGER VORTAC 115.70"
And also from Airnav.com, specific information about the COWBOY VOR/DME: (
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"CVE
COWBOY VOR/DME
DALLAS, TX
Location
Lat/Long: 32-53-25.134N / 096-54-14.270W (32.8903150/-96.9039639)
Elevation: 447.0 ft.
Variation: 06E (1995)
Operational Characteristics
Type: VOR/DME
Class: H-VORW/DME
Frequency: 116.20
TACAN channel: 109X
Altitude code: H (high)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice ID: no
Morse ID: -.-. ...- .
NOTAM facility: FTW
FSS:
FSS hours of operation: 24
Technical Characteristics
Accuracy: unknown
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator at control point
Owner: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Operator: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes"