Coast Guard Air Station Salem: Fate Unknown

From: Naval Aviation News | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

It's not unusual to feel a sense of nostalgia after driving through the gates of the old air station, where a lone sign reading "U.S. Coast Guard" appears faintly above the hangar door as a reminder of times past. One might even imagine the ghosts of pilots approaching their aircraft to conduct preflight inspections in the shadows of the buildings, or the sound of whirring rotor blades preparing for takeoff in the howl of the wind.

Coast Guard Air Station Salem, situated on Winter Island on the northern shore of Massachusetts, was established in February 1935 and remained in service until ...

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