CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM <SANITIZED> RE NAVY AIRCRAFT PARKED AT <SANITIZED> DURING PERIOD 23 DEC 65 - 09 MAR 66

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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2021
• Case Number: F-2011-01575
• Publication Date: March 22, 1966

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FOLLOWING IS SUMMARY 'OF ACTIVITY RE: NAVY AIRCRAFT PARKED AT
DURING PERIOD 23 DEC 65 - 09 MAR 66:
1. ON 23 DEC 65, AN SR2H AIRCRAFT, NUMBER 135582, ARRIVED
AT THIS BASE AT APPROXIMATELY 0910 HOURS. THE U.S. NAVY CREW
WERE MET BY LCDR JOHN HUBER AND MR. SAMUEL H. JOHNSON OF THIS
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DETACHMENT AND IMMEDIATELY TRANSPORTED TO THE
THEY ADVISED THAT THEY NEEDED NO FURTHER ASSISTANCE.
TIME DID THEY ENTER THE
AT NO
RESTRICTED COMPOUND NOR WERE
THERE ANY ARTICLES IN SIGHT DURING THE SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
THAT THEY WERE HERE.
2. THE AIRCRAFT WAS STORED IN ONE OF THE HANGARS BELONG-
ING TO THIS UNIT AND WAS INSPECTED BY JAMES L. BUTLER AND
CLYDE RAINES, LING TEMPCO VOUGHT TECH REPS, ON 29 DEC 65.
WEEKLY RUNUPS OF THE PISTON ENGINES WERE CONDUCTED BY
MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL, WHO ALSO OPERATED THE JET ENGINES AT
TEN DAY INTERVALS.
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BUTLER ARRIVED WITH A GROUND CREW
CONSISTING OF A. L. DOOLEY; J. E. T HORP AND B. BEANE; WHO
INSPECTED THE AIRCRAFT AND ADJUDGED IT A IRWORT HY. THE CRAFT
WAS THEN FUELED BY MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL OF THIS SQUADRON, WHO
ALSO ASSISTED THE FLIGHT CREW IN PREFL IG HT ING THE AIR='
CRAFT. THE FLIGHT CREW, CONSISTING OF
DEPARTED WITH THE PLANE ON 9 MAR AT 0708 HOURS, LOCAL TIME,
DESTINED FOR MAJORS FIELD, GREENVILLE; TEXAS. AT NO TIME
WERE ANY OF THE LTV PERSONNEL PERMITTED WITHIN THE RESTRICTED
COMPOUND, NOR WERE THEY EVER ABLE TO OBSERVE AN ARTICLE.
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