Hawaii-based F-22 video of maintenance ops, taxing, taking off, landing, conducting pre-flight ops, and various shots of the aircraft itself. Video produced by the 15th Wing Public Affairs
Check Six
Garrett Lozier posted this on the Remember Oahu from the Past Facebook page This was taken around 1968 – 69. Back then Hickam AFB was a beehive of activity with aircraft ...
Read More Check Six – 1968: Hickam AFB Flightline
This undated photograph shows Col Richie “Kuni” Kunichika, the Deputy Commander for Operations (DCO) and some of his staff. In the photograph (L-R): Col Kunichika, unknown, unknown, Lt Col William ...
Read More Check Six – Early 1980s: Operations Staff
This undated photograph was taken outside the 199th Fighter Squadron operations building in Area 65 on Hickam AFB. The squadron relocated to Building 3400 in 1960. Retiree News asked Edward “Rick” Richardson, the ...
Read More Check Six – Early 1950s: 199th Fighter Squadron
This undated photographs shows Stanford Lum. He served in the hydraulic shop for many years when it was part of the Field Maintenance Branch. Another of the great maintenance personnel ...
Read More Check Six – 1970s: Stanford Lum
The National Guard Bureau extended Federal Recognition to the Hawaii Air National Guard on November 4, 1946. Th initial operating location was Bellows AFB in Waimanalo. The 199th Fighter Squadron ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1940s: Red Ball
This undated photograph shows a flightline mechanic guiding a McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom returning from a training flight. The old civil engineering building (now gone) and Battery Selfridge are in ...
Read More Check Six – late 1970s: Mission Return
This undated photograph shows Kenneth “Kenny” Camara. Kenny’s career in the maintenance complex began in the 1950s. The 199th Fighter Squadron flew North American F-86 Sabres. Kenny was a mainstay ...
Read More Check Six – 1970s: Kenny Camara
Imagine this: Mom takes a trip to the commissary with her seven children. All of a sudden, Mom demands that everyone “Fall in,” and immediately a straight lines forms, shortest ...
Read More Check Six – 2016: 2LT Christine Kaiulu Burley
The 199th Fighter Squadron began flying McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantoms in 1976. Coming out of conversion status, one of their first deployments was to Anderson AFB, Guam. This undated photograph ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1970s: Phantoms to Guam
