Could be. When I flew into there in 1977 it was called Schenectady County
Airport.
>
>One of my first flights ever was via NYANG C-97 to Wright-Patterson field
>in Ohio to go to the Air Force Museum, somewhere around 1969. It was a
>Civil Air Patrol trip. Departed from the ANG base in the town of Glenville,
>just outside Schenectady. Is this the same place into which you flew?
>
>On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:19 AM Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>> Yes, I have one. Back in 1977 I was in the process of leaving active
>> duty. I had been accepted for graduate school at Penn State and had an
>> application pending to fly EC-130's for the Pennsylvania ANG (PANG). I
>> flew a C-130H up to Schenectady, New York to deliver a casket with the
>> remains of a poor fellow who had died in a HALO jump, along with the escort
>> to take it to Long Island. While there I got to see the New York ANG's
>> C-130D's, the ski-equipped versions that served the DEW line in Canada and
>> Greenland. I mentioned that I was leaving active duty to attend graduate
>> school and fly with PANG. They offered me a position right there.
>
Chris
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