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FAIRCHILD HILLER FH-227 —
Flashback to 1968 ~~
Mohawk Airlines Fairchild Hiller FH-227B.
Scan of a Kodak 620 film print taken in 1968 with a Kodak Bullseye Camera.
This 56 year old print was quite faded. I had shared this print with a Mohawk Airlines "fan" over ten years ago and he had repaired it as best he could back then and then he had posted it on a web site he had built that featured photos of Robinson, Mohawk, and Empire Airlines. Very regretfully, he has passed on and his website has been discontinued. So, after having an email discussion with FA Support Specialist Nathan L., I was assured that old-age pictures such as this are permitted for posting here in the FA Gallery, I dug out this pic (and others) and used PS to "resurrect" the color (as much as possible) seen in this. I removed a crease or two and this is the result.
I took this at KBUF several months before I enlisted in the USAF and left Western New York.
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By the time I took this picture in '68 (when I was 18), Westinghouse had a factory in that building. However, back in 1941, that structure was the Curtiss Wright Plant #2. From 1941 until the end of WWII, over 17,500 aircraft rolled off the Curtiss Wright production line there, and included in that total were over 9,500 P-40 Warhawks and over 2,500 Curtiss Commandos.
Today, that building no longer exists. It was purchased from Westinghouse by the NFTA (Niagara Frontier Transit Authority) and demolished when an entirely new airport was built. As part of the new airport, KBUF's crosswind runway 14-32 was extended and the extended portion of that runway is located where that Westinghouse building seen in the background used to be.
Another trivia tidbit ....
Back in '68, whenever an airliner such as this one was parked on the ramp and was NOT being prepped for an upcoming flight, we would check in with a ground agent (of whatever airline the aircraft belonged to) and we could then go on board and sit in the pax cabin, take pics in the cabin or cockpit, or walk around it on the ramp to get photos. * The ONLY airline that did NOT permit us to do this was United (and even then, I knew a couple of UA ground gals who would allow me out on the ramp to quickly click some pics while they watched). * Yeah, man! THOSE were the DAYS!
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