Litchfield NAS, in 2008
Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:34 pm
I was doing some work on a customers plane last week at the Goodyear Airport, gooryear, Az. Which during and after WWII was Litchfield NAS. They did modifications to Privateers and Liberators there, as well as a Goodyear factory. After the war, it was the site if the Navy's version of Davis Monthan. It was where navy planes came to die. Today, Airliners come there to die.
These are the hangars from WWII, the East Hangar has had extensions added to it to allow airliners to fit inside.
Mosely Aviation's DC-7, was used by Ladybird Johnson.
These are the hangars from WWII, the East Hangar has had extensions added to it to allow airliners to fit inside.
Mosely Aviation's DC-7, was used by Ladybird Johnson.
imagine all the stuff they burried in trash dumps there
Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:41 pm
...over the years 
Litchfield Park, AZ
Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:26 am
If you refer to Mel Shettle's book "U.S. Naval Air Stations of WWII Vol 2" page 128 there is an excellent aerial view of Litchfield Park dated March 1945. Over 200 PB4Y's can be seen on the ramp area...the vast majority being -2 Privateers with a token few -1 Liberators.
My uncle worked at the Goodyear facility during WWII where they did PB2Y Coronado subassembly work.
My uncle worked at the Goodyear facility during WWII where they did PB2Y Coronado subassembly work.