Robert “Bob” Finch, is an aviation photographer and historian (and frequent contributor to this web site), who lived in New York State, north of New York City, during the 1950s. Before he reached his teen years, his father gave him a film camera, and Bob began taking pictures of airplanes. He still does it today, although he’s […]
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Late 1950’s Stewart Air Force Base Through Robert Finch’s Eyes
Posted by Ken Kula on June 29th, 2015
Posted in airshows 
Tags: ADC, Air Defense Command, B-25, B-29, C-123, C-131, C-45, C-47, C-54, C-97, CF-100, EC-121, F-101, F-102, F-86D, F-89, F-94, New York City, Nike, P2V, Robert Finch, S-2, Stewart Air Force Base, T-33 
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Posted by Ken Kula on April 30th, 2015
Towards the end of the U.S. Armed Forces’ move from the piston age into the jet age, MASDC, and later AMARC, became chock full of surplus and obsolescent aircraft in a hurry. When I began visiting the Boneyard in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were still several Convair C-131 and T-29 aircraft still in […]
Posted in Museums, Uncategorized Tags: AMARC, Boeing Dash 80, C-117, C-118, C-130, C-131, C-47, Fairchild, MASDC, NAA Guppy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, T-28, T-29, T-33, T-38, T-46A, TF-9J, Tucson, Warbirds, YC-14, YC-15 Comments Off on MASDC, AMARC, AMARG, Some Snapshots in Time, Trainers and Transports