The following article was taken from the Winter 1969 issue of the Pūpūkahi. It was written by A1C Gregory Ing. 13th Anniversary. The thirteenth anniversary of the 169th AC&W Squadron was ...
Read More Check Six – 1969: 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron News
1960’s
In 1960-1961, the 199th Fighter Squadron was in the middle of an aircraft conversion. After flying the North American F-86L Sabre Interceptors since 1958, the unit began their transition to the Convair F-102 ...
Read More Check Six – 1960-61: F-102A Delta Dagger Conversion
This photograph shows several F-102s in a taxi formation at Dillingham Field in MokulēʻIa. The 199th Fighter Squadron were in the sixh year of flying the Convair F-102 Delta Daggers. ...
Read More Check Six – 1966: Summer Camp at Dillingham Field
A familiar cockpit view of the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger flown by the 199th Fighter Squadron. On 1 December 1960, the 199th was authorized to expand to a group level, ...
Read More Check Six: F-102 Delta Dagger Cockpit
From the September 1964 Issue of Hawaii Guardsman The Air Guard’s 109th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron, located at Punamano (Kahuku), closed down operations in mid-July after 8 years of ...
Read More Check Six – 1964: 109 ACWS Close Operations at Punamano
This undated photograph shows a Hawaii Air National Guard McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom on Taxiway Mike. Aircraft leaving on training flights get an engine running last check at the end ...
Read More Check Six: Last Check on Taxiway Mike
This photograph of the Hawaii Air National Guard compound is undated. But the 154th Fighter Interceptor Group occupied their new compound in 1962. The photograph shows the squadron’s C-47 that ...
Read More Check Six – 1963: HANG Compound
From the December 1965 Issue of the Hawai‘i Guardsman The Hawai‘i Air Guard unit at Hickam AFB received a C-54 transport to replace the C-47 which they had in service ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: HANG Welcomes a C-54 Skymaster
From the December 1965 Issue of the Hawai‘i Guardsman The Hawai‘i Air National Guard bid farewell to a familiar sight at the Hawai‘i Air Guard unit at Hickam AFB. Normally ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: HANG Says Aloha Their C-47 Skytrain
This photograph was taken from a 1965 Hawai‘i Guardsman magazine. The caption read: When the 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron (169 ACWS) moved from Koko Crater, members of the ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: Sign Change
