Little Rock AFB Airpark iPhone Photo Safari, Feb 2011

[Randy Haskin]

Had a chance to bum around the airpark at Little Rock AFB, AR, this afternoon. Unfortunately I didn't have a real camera, just my iPhone, so nothing in the way of artsy photos this time around...just documentation.

There are a couple more on base that I didn't go past on my run that I'll add in a subsequent post.

[JohnB]

I was wondering what happed to the rare (30 bought) USAF HH-1H Hueys.
Nice to see one was preserved.

And great to see a B-57 preserved in 1950s colors.

[APG85]

Nice shots! That I-Phone does a respectable job of taking pictures. How did you get them from the phone to the computer?

[Randy Haskin]

Nice shots! That I-Phone does a respectable job of taking pictures. How did you get them from the phone to the computer?

The Photobucket app. It automatically tags new photos and offers to upload them to your account when you start it. Fortunately, the LRAFB Lodging had free wifi!

[skooterN2767K]

Looks familiar! I currently live on base at LRF too! If you see a highly modified Parkzone Bf-109 with lights on it flying around the dorms, that's me.

[67N20]

Is this open to the general public?

[skooterN2767K]

No. it's inside the gate, unless you know someone who can escort you on base. They also have a RF-101 and a RF-84 down on the main road that parallels the flight line and a C-130B on display just outside the main gate.

[Dave C]

In the head on of the C-47, what is that 6 bladed prop on display in the background?

Dave in NJ

[skooterN2767K]

The 6 bladed prop is from the J model C-130.

[B 25 C]

Excellent pic.

[whistlingdeath77]

that phone is great with the photos

[CraigQ]

Nice pics Randy, last time I saw that Canberra it was in one of the MX hangars being stripped for repaint. Seeing that location plaque for the missile sites really brought back some way back memories. I grew up and still own property back in Arkansas next door to the site just west of Searcy, no doubt site security watched a skinny kid roaming near the perimeter fence with his shotgun and dogs rabbit hunting on more than one occasion.

[Django]

Great pics Randy! Thanks for posting, as many of us would not have a chance to see them.

[JohnB]

Which of those Little Rock Titan sites had the explosion?

In the early 80s we discussed it a great deal at USAF Public Affairs officer training, it led to changes to the long standing..."We can neither confirm or deny..." policy on special weapons.

RIP to the missile maintainer killed in the explosion (IIRC...a dropped wrench pierced the skin of the missile)...remember, it wasn't just aviators who put their lives on the line in the line of duty.

BTW: I was told by a Little Rock PAO that in his years as Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton never visited the base. Can anyone confirm?

[Second Air Force]

John,

The accident was at site 374-7 in (I think) Van Buren County.

There was also a very bad explosion/fire at a site being built near Searcy in the sixties that killed over fifty construction employees.