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Check Six: An Old Friend at the Boneyard

May 23, 2021

This undated photograph shows a Hawaii Air National Guard F-4C Phantom II, No. 37562 at the "Boneyard". Officially know as the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC), the boneyard is located on Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona. If you enlarge...

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Check Six – 1960s: Deuces at Dillingham

May 20, 2021

The undated shows a Hawaii Air National Guard Convair F-102A Delta Dagger on the ramp at Dillingham Field. The 154th Fighter Interceptor Group flew out of Dillingham during "summer camps" in the 1960s and the early 1970s. Photograph from the...

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Check Six – Early 1960s: Two 154 CAMRON Members

May 17, 2021

Off the Hawaii State Archives Facebook page This undated photograph shows Lawrence Partika and Charles Calvin, two members of the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. They are working at the rear of the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, near the speed...

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Check Six – 1966: Armed Forces Day Open House

May 15, 2021

For many years, the Hickam AFB hosted a base open house on Armed Forces Day – the third Saturday in May. The open house featured many military aircraft static displays. Armed Forces Day evolved to Military Appreciation Month over the...

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Check Six – 1960s: Party Time

April 30, 2021

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph show Hawaii Air National Guard members at a dinner celebration. Looks like a dinner at one of the many tea house restaurants of the day. Several familiar faces...

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Check Six – Early 1960s: HANG Flightline

March 15, 2021

Neil Walter posted this on the Remember Oahu from the Past Facebook page Neil Walter's comments that accompanied the photograph: My Dad (Don Walker) flew for HANG out of Hickam at that time. I was very young but I loved visiting...

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Check Six – 1968: Hickam AFB Flightline

March 5, 2021

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 of all types and sizes going to or coming from...

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Check Six – 1960: At the Alert Pad

January 29, 2021

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph In 1960, the 199th Fighter Squadron was converting from North American F-86 Sabres to Convair F-102A Delta Daggers. This undated photograph shows the incoming and outgoing jets with two unidentified mechanics at the alert facility....

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Check Six – Middle 1960: Two Deuces Landing

December 26, 2020

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph shows two Convair F-102 Delta Daggers landing at Honolulu International Airport. Side-by-side landings were part of the training during that period. The photograph was probably taken in the middle 1960s because the...

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