St. Louis Airway Radio Station (KCQ), Missouri, July 1929
Former employees stationed at St. Louis Radio:
Thomas C. Gale
E.E. Nichols
Claude M. Smith
R.S. Allen
Edwin Plagge
F. Robinson
M.E. Walton
M.F. O’Brien
E.E. Frain
St. Louis Radio Station (STL), Missouri, 1930
St. Louis Airway Radio Station during the late 1920s or early ’30s. Barely visible in the photo is the wire strung between the tops of its twin antenna towers. During this era, some stations were making hourly weather broadcasts. When needed for safety, they also accepted messages from the airlines and transmitted them to pilots aloft
St. Louis Flight Service Employees (STL), Chesterfield, Missouri, 1991
The facility was decommissioned July 16, 2007.
Larry Mathers at the Flight Data position.
Walt Thurman at the NOTAM desk.
Clay Gerdine at the Inflight position.
Eileen Kassler at the Preflight position
Submitted by Kay Roam
Billings FSS (BIL), Montana, about 1883
The Billings FSS was located on the 2nd floor of this terminal building in the rear where the airport ramp is located.
Submitted by Kay Roam
Billings FSS (BIL), Montana, about 1883
Billings FSS Inflight position
Left to right, Mark Bivins and Al Verge at the Preflight position
Dennis G. Bogle at the Weather Observation desk
Faitce Swafford and Bobbie Drennon, standing next to the Weather Observation console
Kansas City FSS (MKC), Missouri, June, 1983
Don Jacobson, Al Lane, and David Dover in the Preflight area
Preflight position with Mark Bivins and Dennis Bogle (left to right)
Flight Data position with Larry Foster reading a teletype message
Operations area with (left to right) Al Verge, Larry Foster, and Mark Bivins
Columbia AFSS (COU), Missouri
Logos used at the Columbia AFSS
Columbia AFSS (COU), Missouri, 1985
Illustrated drawing of Columbia FSS