from author and historian Jim Ignasher
Consolidated PT-3A Aircraft
Photo taken at Hillsgrove Airport, Warwick, R.I.
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Consolidated PT-3A, Ser. No. 29-121
Damaged at Hillsgrove, R.I.
November 4, 1935
Student pilot drifted into a ditch upon landing and damaged left wing and tore off left landing gear. Pilot not injured.
Vought SU-1 Navy Aircraft
Photo taken by Louis C. McGowan at Newport Airport, (Rhode Island), on September 4, 1936.
According to the lettering on the side of the aircraft, it was based at the Norfolk, Virginia Naval Air Station
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Vought SU-1
Bu. No. 8875
Technical Data:
Manufactured by Chance Vought Corporation, East Hartford, Connecticut.
Pratt & Whitney R-1690-42 engine, 600 hp.
36 ft long, wingspan, 27 ft 5.5 inches.
Armed with one fixed forward firing 0-30 in machine gun, two 0-30 guns in rear.
WWII Aircraft Carrier, USS Ranger CV-4, ashtray from the Warrant Officers Mess. The Ranger visited New England during the war.
Squantum Naval Air Station – P-47 Thunderbolt – September 12, 1946
Squantum Naval Air Station – May 10, 1947
U.S. Navy Helldiver – Squantum Naval Air Station – BU# 21702
Kaman Seasprite helicopter – built by Kaman Aircraft Corp, Bloomfield, Connecticut.
Squantum Naval Air Station – March 30, 1947
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Spirit Of Woonsocket WWII Bomber Ad – Woonsocket, Rhode Island
B-24 Liberator – Dragon And His Tail -Taken at North Central Airport, Smithfield , R.I.
“Jack’s Hack” – B-29 – New England Air Museum – June, 2005
Squantum Naval Air Station, Mass. – Oct. 15, 1946
Rhode Island Air National Guard 143d Tactical Airlift patch
Quonset Point Naval Air Station insignia patch
U.S. Air Force R-2 Crash-Rescue Truck
The following photos were taken at an antique military vehicle show held in Exeter, Rhode Island, sponsored by the Rhode Island Military Vehicle Collectors Club.
These photos show a fully restored 1953 Dodge, U.S. Air Force, R-2 crash-rescue truck. These trucks were specifically designed to respond to aviation accidents and were used extensively by the military at air bases throughout the country.
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Charlestown Aux. Naval Air Station
Automobile Registration Decal
Charlestown R.I. Air Station
Automobile Registration Decal
This decal/parking permit would have been placed on the windshield of civilian automobiles belonging to servicemen or workers at the Charlestown Aux. Naval Air Station in Charlestown, Rhode Island. The time frame in which it would have been issued is unknown.
Decal image courtesy of the Mr. Larry Webster of the Quonset Air Museum.
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
USS Bunker Hill just four days after her
launching at Quincy, Massachusetts.
December 11, 1942
National Archives Photo
The USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was one of 24 Essex Class aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was fought in Boston, June 17, 1775. Her launching took place December 7, 1942, one year to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and her commissioning occurred just over five months later on May 24, 1943. She saw a lot of action in the Pacific Campaign and survived the war.
The Bunker Hill was sold for scrap in 1973.
South Weymouth Naval Air Station
NAS South Weymouth, in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, served as an operational air field from 1942 to 1997.
Also see Shea Naval Aviation Museum http://www.anapatriotsquadron.org/
K Class Navy Airship
South Weymouth Naval Air Station
October 2, 1942
National Archives Photo
U.S. Navy Blimp
South Weymouth Naval Air Station
February 11, 1944
National Archives Photo
Quonset Point Naval Air Station OS2U-2 Kingfisher
March 20, 1941
These photos are of a U.S. Navy OS2U-2 Kingfisher, (Bu. No. 2193) belonging to Scouting Squadron 2, stationed at Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island at the beginning of World War II. (Note the Quonset Point designation on the fuselage.)
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U.S. Navy OS2U-2 Kingfisher
U.S. Navy Photo
National Archives
U.S. Navy OS2U-2 Kingfisher
U.S. Navy Photo
National Archives
U.S. Navy OS2U Kingfisher Fuel Gauge
Quonset Point Naval Air Station Vintage Images
The Quonset Point Naval Air Station was located on Narragansett Bay in the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
To see hundreds more vintage images of the Quonset Point Naval Air Station one can obtain two books published through Arcadia Press in their Images of America series titled: Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Volumes 1 & 2, by Seam Paul Milligan. Both books are highly informative.
Before the navy base, Quonset Point was a summer community. This real estate ad is from July of 1930.
Vintage Post Card View Of The Former Entrance To Quonset Point, NAS.
Quonset Point Naval Air Station Insignia patch
A Vintage Post Card View Of A Helicopter Over Quonset Point Naval Air Station
U.S. Marine Corps O2U Corsair, Bu. No. A-7661
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