Warbird Information Exchange

A couple more. Don't recall any tower at Arlington

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I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the second picture looks a little more like Abbotsford than Arlington.

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Those two photos are @ KPAE in front of what is now ATS Hanger #2, at the time probably half TRAMCO and half ALASKA-PACIFIC. The first picture looking West-ish towards Puget Sound, the second one sort of East-ish. That hanger built by ALASKA AIRLINES in 1948-49. I started working for the now gone TRAMCO in that hanger in 1987, made the full round of BADWRENCHES hangers and was laid off by BADWRENCH out of that hanger when they were trying to become a power in large business executive jets (so how'd that contract with BOMBASTIC for GLOBAL EXPRESSES work out there BFG?) 14 years later.
That tower was still pretty new in the, I'm guessing late 70's very early 80's. Since torn down and replaced a few years ago by a newer, 208 ft. tall one just Northwest of the one in the picture, about 100 yards off the left wing tip of the B-25. And I still contend theat the first picture was @ Arlington as there ain't no hills shaped like that around KPAE but the hills East of Arlington are as you go up towards Granite Falls and Verlot.

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OH, Yeah, did you take any pictures of the C-82 parked to the right of the B-25?

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Paine Field is where we bought her..

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That's Paine, notice no hangers in the background and the taxi way behind it.
Norm

There is no tower or traffic control @ Arlington except 'watch out for yo' own butt', just the FBO with a unicom, and if you ain't buying gas, he won't talk to you! This @ an airport that operates Ultralights, SPAM cans, homebuilts, classics, a few warbirds, gliders, skydivers, private jets, flight training, the occasional big piston type (like the ex-Navy CONNIE about twenty years ago), heck, we shot an approach there in an aLASKA 727 once to test a HUD installation, STODDARD-HAMILTON, just about everything short of slot cars and turtle sprint races off a unicom (the field was once an NHRA dragstrip in the 60's too). The EAA did build a portable 'tower' for the fly-in, it's about 20 feet tall, made of twice by fours, and is supposed to 'evoke the feel of a WW2 air base' except they really would like to have the War Birds go somewhere else that weekend to make more room for avionics peddlers and the 'big 'ol used plane' sales types.

F.O.Y.S.-I was referring to T/P entry #1 when I mentioned Arlington being the location of the photo of the B-25 on the edge of the grass next to the CESSNA 170, not KPAE-

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I agree the very first picture (TP-1) looks like the Fly In side of AWO. The building across the field look definatly Arlington to me. These are Paine no question.
Norm