Rapid City National Weather Service, South Dakota, 1939
Weather Bureau station (left) and hanger at the Rapid City Airport in 1939. Site is presently Ellsworth Air Force Base.
Huron FSS (HON), South Dakota, March 1984
Photo taken from the pilot walk-in area at the north end of operations and looks south. ATCS Arlene Bauder sits at a Preflight terminal. ATCS Gene Kornak is studying weather maps. ATCS Randy Bohn is standing near the Inflight position. Airport Manager Don Freese (with hat) is sitting at the supervisor’s desk.
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TCS Gene Kornak (retired), at the Flight Watch console. The RRWDS displays located to his right with the Preflight area in the background. Broadcast Leased Service A terminal in foreground.
ATCS, Mick Farrell (retired), at Preflight position using a Leased Service A terminal
Phillip FSS (PHP), South Dakota, 1990
Phillip FSS was closed March 23, 1963. This photo was taken in the spring of 1990 and the structure was apparently being used by the airport manager for storage. It is gone now.
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Submitted by Ted Manis
Partial newspaper article from 1958 indicating a change of managers at the above Philip Radio Station
Pierre FSS (PIR), South Dakota, 1990
Aircraft Continental Express, ATR42 and Mesaba Metro on ramp at Pierre Regional Airport in 1990. FSS was located on the second floor of the terminal where a long row of narrow windows is visible. The air traffic managers office was on second floor to right (where the larger square window is located).
Historical Information
Pierre, South Dakota FSS (PIR) 1972
The Pierre FSS (PIR) was located on the second floor of the Pierre Municipal Airport terminal building. Both, air traffic and airways facilities personnel occupied the quarters. Pierre Municipal Airport is located four miles northeast of the City of Pierre, the capitol of South Dakota. The airport had two runways, 13/31 and 7/25, both 150′ wide and 6900′ long, with a VOR Approach to 7 and 25. North Central Airlines and Western Airlines served Pierre utilizing Douglas DC-9’s, Boeing 737’s and Convair 580’s.
In mid 1972, Pierre FSS was staffed with seven specialist, four who had less than three years experience. They were Harold Bolyard, Roy Stanek, Pat O’Connor, Blaine Olson, Baxter Sowell, Wilbert “Will” Showers and Bill Parker (#3734). The Facility Chief was Jack Mitchell (#3736). Pierre had a large flight service area, covering over 20,000 square miles, including 45 airports, four remote VOR’s, one radio beacon, one RCAG, direction finder (DF) and weather observations. Pierre was well represented by FAA, hosting the FSS, Airways Facility Sector Office, Airways Facility Unit, and an Airports District Office. The South Dakota Aeronautics Commission was also located in Pierre. They operated a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza (BE50) and a Piper Navajo (PA31).
Historical information obtained from the FAA Rocky Mountain Intercom, dated 26 May 1972. Submitted by William “Bill” G. Parker #3734, Nov. 25, 2007.
Watertown FSS (ATY), South Dakota, 1986-87
Watertown Weather Observation. ATCS Jim Anez reading the outside temperature and dew point during the winter.
Huron FSS (HON), South Dakota
The facility was decommissioned July 23, 2007.
Huron FSS operations looking from south end towards the north. Inflight positions to left by the LABS terminal, TLSU and teletype bank to right. EFAS and RRWDS midway on left, supervisor’s desk center of area at the far end. Quarters were shared with NWS and they were located at the north end of the building (beyond the wall map). ATM and secretary’s offices were located where the windows can be seen along the wall to the right.
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Straight on view of the Preflight positions at Huron FSS. RRWDS displays are at left, Leased Service A are at right.
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Photo taken along wall near the north end of operations. GS 200 system is in the foreground. Inflight and broadcast are located along the console at the center of the picture. Teletypes and TLSU are to the left.
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ATCS Arlene Bauder sits at teletype. Leased Service A printers at left end of bank. TLSU to her right. The training/conference room were located beyond the window at the right center of the photo.
Watertown FSS (ATY), South Dakota, 1968
Watertown Inflight position. Specialist unknown. Note that the console is almost identical to the way it looked in the 1986 photo (and still looked when the facility was closed in August 1994). Photo is from a brochure prepared by the airport for an open house.
Watertown FSS (ATY), South Dakota, 1986
The FSS building was located on the east end of the terminal building. The window of the ATM’s office is just visible on the far left edge of the photo.
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Watertown FSS Inflight console
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ATCS Leslie Moritz. View is from southeast corner of operations looking northwest
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Preflight display of weather maps, AIRMETs, and NOTAMs
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Watertown Weather Observation position showing the weather observation desk on the right and Preflight map display on left
Submitted by Nathan Sewell
Anderson AFSS (AND), South Carolina 2002
Left to right, Esther Lloyd (representing the FSS Academy), Nathan Sewell, and Ernie Wilson, during transition training to the new OASIS Automation computer system. The facility was decommissioned July 16, 2007.
Aberdeen FSS (ABR), South Dakota. 1987
ATCS, Dave Sorensen, at the Inflight console, Aberdeen FSS, January 1987 (taken from a newspaper article about the planned closure of the facility)