In the 1970s and 80s, Unit Training Assemblies (UTAs) were filled with a heavy flying schedule with a lot of ground training. Occasionally, there was a special ceremony – like ...
Read More Check Six – 1970s: UTA Celebrations
1970’s
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
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 undated photograph shows Herbert “Take” Takeuchi. Take was the Electric Shop chief for many years. Someone mentioned that this photograph was taken during the F-4C Phantom era.
This undated photograph shows the serving line in the then-154th Composite Group chow hall. The timeline was probably in the late 1070s. The facility was on the ocean side of ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG Serving Line – 45 years ago
This a photograph shows a F-102 Delta Dagger landing on Runway 26R at then-Honolulu International Airport. Because the Deuce has Air Force marking and the Hawaii Air National Guard tail ...
Read More Check Six 1973: F-102 Landing
This undated photograph show the Convair F-102A Delta Dagger which the 199th Fighter Squadron flew from 1960-1976. The Hawai‘i Air National Guard retained aircraft 53-3366 and it became a static ...
Read More Check Six: 154th Wing Gate Guard
This photograph, taken in 1980, shows a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II on the 154th Wing flightline. The 199th Fighter Squadron flew Phantoms from 1976-1987. On the cart are AIM-9 Sidewinder and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles. Actual ...
Read More Check Six: F-4C Phantom on the 154th Wing Flightline – 40 years ago
From the Hawaii Guardsman, Summer 1972 Issue The Hawaii National Guard volleyball program would up in a blaze of blue – Air Guard blue – as the 154th Fighter Group ...
Read More Check Six – 1972: 154th Fighter Group Sweeps HING Volleyball
This undated photograph show several Hawaii Air National Guard members in a serving line. It appears the timeline is the early 1970s because of the apparent transistion from blue/white name ...
Read More Check Six: In the Serving Line – 40+ years ago
