Albuquerque FSS (ABQ), New Mexico. 1985
Preflight 1, 2, and 3 positions. Frank Stuart briefing a pilot over the telephone
Ray Dileo on duty at the Inflight position
Flight Watch
Albuquerque FSS (ABQ), New Mexico, 1963
Carl R. Paddock at the Inflight position
John R. Grandfield Jr. at the broadcast position
The flight plan position
Albuquerque FSS (ABQ), New Mexico, 1965
Inflight position
Albuquerque Historical Radio Log (ABQ), New Mexico, between 1931-2007
The Albuquerque Radio Log is an incredible 188 page handwritten log of personnel and events that occurred between the time Albuquerque Radio was commissioned on April 1, 1931 to the closing of the Albuquerque AFSS on May 21, 2007.
Albuquerque Historical Radio Log (6.7mb PDF)
Albuquerque Airport (ABQ), New Mexico, 1951
Albuquerque FSS (ABQ), New Mexico. Inflight, 1951
Albuquerque C.A.A. (ABQ), New Mexico, 1958
Albuquerque Air Traffic Communication Station
Submitted by Robert E. Pearce
Amalgamated Gas Accumulator (AGA), Nevada, September 2007
A photo taken of an identification plate located on one of the old Nevada airway beacons.
History of the Amalgamated Gas Accumulator
AGA AB was started in 1904 near Stockholm, Sweden, by Gustaf Dalen, a 35-year-old engineer and ingenious inventor. The very next year, AGA developed an automatic lighthouse mechanism that included the sun valve and the intermittent light regulator (the first innovations patented by AGA). Acetylene, with its bright light, was an excellent fuel for lighthouses, but it was too expensive when burned all day.
AGA’s intermittent light regulator reduced fuel consumption by 90 percent, and the sun valve cut consumption by another 4 percent. This meant lighthouses could be operated at a low cost and left unattended for long periods of time. In 1912, AGA won a contract to build a lighthouse system for the Panama Canal and Dalen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his inventions in lighthouse technology.
In 1911, AGA founded the American Gas Accumulator Co. in New Jersey and in ensuing years many lighthouses were installed around the Great Lakes. Although AGA’s stock in American Gas Accumulator Co. was sold in 1949, new operations had been established in other fields in the United States.
Photos submitted by Don Forbes
A photo taken of an radio beacon light located on one of the old Nevada airway sites (exact location unknown). The above identification plate reads as follows:
AGA
Design 800-A1
Ser. No. 553
MF’G by American Gas Accumulator Co, Elizabeth, NJ
History of the Amalgamated Gas Accumulator
AGA AB was started in 1904 near Stockholm, Sweden, by Gustaf Dalen, a 35-year-old engineer and ingenious inventor. The very next year AGA developed an automatic lighthouse mechanism that included the sun valve and the intermittent light regulator (the first innovations patented by AGA). Acetylene, with its bright light, was an excellent fuel for lighthouses, but it was too expensive when burned all day.
AGA’s intermittent light regulator reduced fuel consumption by 90 percent, and the sun valve cut consumption by another 4 percent. This meant lighthouses could be operated at a low cost and left unattended for long periods of time. In 1912, AGA won a contract to build a lighthouse system for the Panama Canal and Dalen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his inventions in lighthouse technology.
In 1911, AGA founded American Gas Accumulator Co. in New Jersey and in ensuing years many lighthouses were installed around the Great Lakes. Although AGA’s stock in American Gas Accumulator Co. was sold in 1949, new operations had been established in other fields in the United States.
Submitted by Elliott Norat
Millville AFSS (MIV), New Jersey
Facility decommissioned October 10, 2006
Millville FSS/AFSS Personnel Roster 1946-2006 (3mb pdf)
