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Pretty interesting.

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Phillip and All,

Here is a cool link! It should allow you to view most of the airfield from several different points of view as well as the interior of a few buildings. And yes, We bit off a big bite in restoring the base - but I have to add - the officers club building is nearing the point where new plumbing, electrical and sheetrock will be going in!!

http://www.point1.us/T_UT_TooeleAirport/TAirIndex.html

Enjoy,

Tom P.

Tom,

Do you have the total number of buildings that are still intact handy? It is quite amazing that so many cantonment buildings remained on the field after the last use by the military. Every one of the Midwest fields had virtually all the smaller buildings sold at auction and removed post-war. You may have bit off a big bite, but I for one thank you folks for trying to preserve those structures.

We are planning a trip out there for the Grand Tour sometime in the near future--I've wanted to explore Wendover AAF for many, many years, and it fits in nicely with my airfield research project.

Scott

Scott,

There are a little less than 90 buildings left. Several are in private hands but most are still owned by the county. The original sentry gate building is still here but in such bad shape we are probably going to just build a new one.

Tom P.

Thanks, Tom.

If you folks already haven't done so, it would be great if you took photos of the exterior and interior of the remaining structures and too basic measurements, especially of the more unique buidings. I have a few building blueprints but there are many that I have not yet found. I suspect the Corps of Engineers archives or the National Archives may have them, but measuring standing buildings may be the only opportunity we have to save the data. WWII buildings like the sentry post are extremely rare and I would like to see the data preserved. Hmmm.....maybe I could do some documentation when I come out to visit.....

Scott

Scott,

We have more than 100 original drawings for the base including many of the barracks, mess hall and all types of ancillary structures. Even the underground fuel distribution system (which never worked well I am told) and the runway grades.

Also, we do have a ton of ohotos - mostly taken when we were updating the National Historic Register.

Tom P

That is excellent news, Tom. Did the blueprints survive in the Post Engineer's safe? The McCook blueprint set survived in the Post Engineer office until sometime in the early seventies but went missing after that. I'm trying to build up a set of representative blueprints that document the various structures, so I will be in touch with you about yours!

Scott

Scott,

For what it's worth, we have a fairly large number (though certainly not a complete set) of the plans for the buildings and overall layout of Frederick Army Air Field, so if you're looking for anything specific, let me know.

Regards,

Andy

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Get duplicates produced of those blueprints, Andy, and lock the extras away somewhere. I would love to come down and go through the Frederick prints sometime soon as I am missing quite a number of drawings of the more prosaic strucutures such as barracks and mess halls. Once again, thank goodness someone had the foresight not to just dump them in an incinerator way back when.

Great news.
Scott