Submitted by Steve Forsyth
Yakutat (YAK) FAA Housing, Alaska, late 1960’s
The Yakutat Flight Service Station used to be located in the second story of the blue sided building, which is located behind the tan building (with red roof) and between the two aircraft. Trees now obscure part of the building. The large structure behind the FSS building is the new State Shop building.
Phoenix FSS (PHX), Arizona, 1990’s.
This photo was taken in the 1990’s but is virtually the same building occupied by Phoenix FSS and Phoenix RAPCON during the 1980’s
Prescott FSS (PRC), Arizona, 1983
Bob Burke, electronic technician
Photo by Frank and Barb Cokeley, submitted by Steve Forsyth
Yakutat (YAK) FAA Housing, Alaska, late 1960’s
Winter time photo of government furnished housing for FAA FSS and Airways Facility personnel stationed at Yakutat. There were three housing units. The yellow building in the forefront of the photo burned down in 1975. This photo depicts a typical winter in Yakutat during those years, however, snowfall is now considerably less than it was prior to the 1980’s. Rain, bald eagles, fish, and brown bears flourish in the area. Yakutat FSS is now closed and remotes to Juneau.
Yakutat (YAK) FAA Housing, Alaska
Government furnished housing for FSS and AF personnel stationed at Yakutat. Rain, bald eagles, fish, and brown bears flourish in the area. The FSS facility is now closed and housing removed.
Submitted by Steve Forsyth
Yakutat (YAK) FAA Housing, Alaska, 2006
The long one piece gray structure in the foreground is the old National Weather Service (NWS) office and employee housing, . The NWS observation office was located on the far left end and the remainder of the units were used for NWS employee housing.
The small field that lies between the NWS housing and the gravel road that parallels the NWS housing (the road next to the small white structure on far right) is where FAA housing once existed for all FSS and Airways Facility (AF) employees stationed in Yakutat. A few years prior to this photo, preparations were underway to move the housing units to another location due to runway expansion but exhaust from a generator, a little too close to one of the units, caused a fire which destroyed one of them. The remaining housing units were then demolished.
In the lower left corner of the photo is an area of contaminated soil discovered during the runway expansion cleanup project. Rain (average 135 inches annually), bald eagles, fish, wolves, and brown bears flourish in the area. It was very common for Alaskan Brown Bears to wonder through the housing project at night during the summer months. The FSS station is now closed.
Cape Yakataga (CYT), Alaska, August 1959
The Air-Tram was a covered tram/stairs that ran up the mountainside to the VHF transmitter site. The transmitter was located about 2 miles south of Cape Yakataga.
Yakataga FSS (CYT), Alaska 1961
Yakataga FSS and employee housing located adjacent the Pacific Ocean. The runway can be seen between the beach and housing area.
Yakataga FSS (CYT), Alaska 1961
Yakataga FSS and employee housing located adjacent the Pacific Ocean. The runway can be seen between the beach and housing area.
Yakataga FSS (CYT), Alaska 1971
Yakataga FSS building