Burley FSS (BYI), Idaho 1964
New Flight Service and FAA offices costing $200,000. The FSS compliment consisted of seven specialists with Dean L. Lane as Chief of the Burley FSS. Going back even further in time, back in 1885, a Colonel Miller took up a homestead of 1,260 acres near the Snake River at Burley, Idaho. At about the same time Mrs. Miller put in a claim on 480 acres in an area which is now the Burley town site.
Burley FSS (BYI), Idaho 1963
Honolulu (HNL), Hawaii, Teletypewriters, 1941
Communications between the CW operators and the teletypewriters was via conveyor belt. Messages would come around to the drop-off point in front of the machine operators. From left to right, Pobanz, Pauley, and Casey, where often as not, it would miss the box below and sail in behind the teletypewriter machines.
Lihue FSS (LIH), Kauai, Hawaii, Inflight, 1963
Ervin Dworzack, charter member of “The Society of Airways Pioneers,” one-time barnstormer, and ham radio operator since 1923, likes to reminisce about the old days when a radio operator had to be self-sufficient.
There were no systems maintenance personnel, electronic maintenance technicians, or even a radio repair man to consult when the equipment broke down. Some of his duties included helping the mail plane pilot shovel snow, and occasionally he helped unload mail for delivery via rail when the mail plane couldn’t get through because of weather.
Honolulu International FSS (HNL), Hawaii, Tape Relay, 1964
Before an equipment update in 1964, tape relay handling was almost unmanageable. Lelen Lum and Tomas Deboma try to catch up. The IFSS was located in Diamond Head Crater.
Honolulu AFSS (HNL), Oahu, Hawaii, November 2004
Submitted by Jim Brown
Puunene INSACS, Hawaii, 1950
Jim Brown, far right at the teletype position. Bill Clark (middle), at the broadcast/air-ground position. Noble Laesch, Facility Chief (far left). In Hawaii there was no dress code for employees of INSACS.
Boise AFSS (BOI), Idaho 2004
Boise Automated Flight Service Station. The facility was decommissioned July 23, 2007.
Macon AFSS (MCN), Georgia, 2009
Macon AFSS building was built in 1985
Macon AFSS (MCN) Employee Photos, January 2, 2009
Andee Lancaster
Paul Beyer
Barbara Matheny
Rickey Farmer
Betty Sanland
Dennis Watts, Paul Beyer, Tim Trammell, and JT Putney
Chris Henne
Facility group photo.
Jennifer Lewis
Kevin Hagans, Chuck Abney, Chris Henne, Yvonne Grate
Kevin Hagans
Herbie Castro and Paul Beyer
Mickey Powers