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
1960’s
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
The first F-102 Delta Dagger arrived at Hickam AFB on December 5, 1960. The Deuces replaced the F-86L Sabre Interceptors on 24/7 runway alert the following May. Unit training now included operating from bare ...
Read More Check Six – 1960s: Dillingham Field Operations
This is the organization emblem graced the wall in the stairwell to the 199th Fighter Squadron in the then-new Hickam hanger. Although undated, this photograph was probably taken in early ...
Read More Check Six – 1961: 199 FS Patch & Kurt Johnson
The Hawaii Air National Guard has two annual field training periods in 1967. There was a six day spring camp in April and a six day summer camp in June. ...
Read More Check Six: PMRF Barking Sands Deployment – 53 years ago
