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
1970’s
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
26 January 1945. First flight of the McDonnell XFD-1 (FH) Phantom 1, (48235) US twin-engine jet fighter aircraft. First purely jet-powered aircraft to land on an American aircraft carrier and ...
Read More Check Six: McDonnell XFD-1 (FH) Phantom 1 – 75 years ago
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
Before it became a digital Department of Defense website, printed copies Airman Magazine was published monthly. In the November 1978 issue, there was a lengthy article about the Hawaii Air ...
Read More Check Six: Airman Magazine Features the HIANG – 41 years ago
Retiree News discovered this photograph of Peter “Skipper” Pawling on the internet. We later found it on Skipper’s Facebook page. Skipper started a long career in the Hawaii Air National ...
Read More Check Six – 1972: Lt Peter “Skipper” Pawling
From the This Day in Aviation website 27 July 1972: McDonnell Douglas Chief Experimental Test Pilot Irving L. Burrows made the first flight of the prototype YF-15A-1-MC Eagle, 71-0280, at ...
Read More Check Six – 1972: F-15 First Flight
This undated photograph shows the inside of the 154th Wing compound near the supply gate.
In the 1960s through the early 1970s, the Hawaii Air National Guard had a HIANG Attendance Trophy. The trophy was presented to the unit with the best unit training assembly (UTA) ...
Read More Check Six: HANG Attendance Trophy – 50 years ago
Top row: Rolf Oudraad, Leslie Galon, Mark Shaw, Stanford Lum, Dwane Yoshioka, Gary Soma, Howard Nonaka Bottom row: Randall Fukunaga, Norman Tyau, Herman Bongco, Daniel Sakuma, Edward Essman Thanks to Stanford Lum ...
Read More Check Six: Pneudraulic Shop – 39 years ago
