Submitted by Ed Dietz
Albany Airway Radio Station (ALB), New York, 1929
Radio operators console
Submitted by Ed Dietz
Albany Airway Radio Station (ALB), New York, 1929
Bill Jones, first Operator In Charge, Albany, New York Airways Radio, 1930
Photo caption: Aviators and aeronautics rally caught the public fancy by 1930. Flying circuses, fly-ins, and air shows brought the whole town to the Albany Municipal Airport in 1930
Multiple Photos of an Unknown FSS Facility. Can you identify them? Year unknown
Truth or Consequences FSS (TCS), New Mexico, January 1986
FSS Building
Dwight Warrington is preparing to transmit a weather observation
Dwight Warrington transmitting a weather observation
Submitted by Steve Owen
Truth or Consequences FSS (TCS), New Mexico, 2011
The FSS facility (far right building above) as it stands in 2011
Submitted by Steve Owen
Submitted by Steve Owen
Photos submitted by Rose Kern
Zuni FSS (ZUN), New Mexico, October 1966
The Zuni FSS building, commissioned November 1, 1949. It’s unknown if there was a radio navigation site located at Zuni. The two western New Mexico CAA/FAA intermediate airfield stations were site 59B at El Morro CAA airfield and site 63 at Acomita CAA airfield.
Submitted by Nathan Sewell
Tucumcari FSS (TCC), New Mexico, December 3, 1980
Specialist, Nathan Sewell
Photo taken and submitted by Nathan Sewell
Tucumcari FSS (TCC), New Mexico, December 3. 1980
Specialist, Nathan Sewell, climbed the nearby airport rotating beacon tower to snap this photo of the Tucumcari FSS building. The set of three windows located in the center of the building was the airport lobby area. Directly to the right of the lobby windows is where the FSS pilot weather briefing counter was located as well as the FSS operations floor. Further to the right was where the airways facility equipment rooms were located which supported the daily FSS operations.
Submitted by Denise Guthery
Tucumcari FSS (TCC), New Mexico. August 1983
Facility Chief, Bill Guthery providing a pilot weather briefing. Bill was with the FSS for more than 35 years until his death in 1991.
Blinker Light 259, Rodeo, New Mexico
No other information available on this photo.
Submitted by Steve Owen
San Rafael Mesa Airway Beacon Generator, Hut LA-A-62, Site 62, 2011
The US Forest Service, Passport in Time volunteers, plan to begin restoration of this generator hut in the fall of 2011, which supplied power to the San Rafael Mesa Airway Beacon, which was part of the Midcontinent Airway system.
Submitted by Steve Owen
San Rafael Mesa Airway Beacon, Generator Hut, LA-A-62, Site 62, 2011
Backside view of the same building at top of page
Submitted by Steve Owen
(Above) In 2011, Site 62 building was moved to Grants Airport and placed next to the Grants Flight Service Station for restoration. In this photo the base structure has been repaired and is almost ready for painting.
Submitted by Steve Owen
Site 62 Restored
The above and below photos are site 62 after a restoration project by “Cibola County Historical Society.” Completed in June 2012.
Submitted by Steve Owen
Submitted by Steve Owen
Submitted by Steve Owen
Submitted by Steve Owen
View several great historical videos from Cibola County Historical Society at Grants, New Mexico