RADAR-LOADED WV-2 SUPER CONSTELLATION BELONGS TO AEWRON-1 BARBERS POINT.
From Airborne Early Warning Squadron One comes a "Can You Top This?" challenge. It looks as though its going to be a hard one to beat!
AEWRon-1 claims a record for aircraft dislocation in a 24-hour period. The squadron's aircraft roster is made up of nine WV-2 super "Connies," but on 6 August, it looked like decommissioning day at the AEWRon-1 section of NAS BARBER'S POINT. The nine craft were scattered from Tokyo's Ginza to the plains of Texas.
Six Constellations from the squadron stable were airborne on major long distance flights at the same time. The remaining three were resting in the Far East, the Hawaiian Islands, and the West Coast. As a matter of fact AEWRon-1 craft were headed in almost every direction.
One plane was airborne for the heavy maintenance shops of Corpus Christi. Another was enroute to Atsugi and from there to NAS CUBI POINT.
At the same time, another aircraft was leaving the sunny Hawaiian Islands and heading for the northern latitudes and Kodiak, Alaska. Stops were made at Midway and Adak enroute. On the return flight the WV-2 landed at Whidbey Island and NAS ALAMEDA.
A long-range navigational training hop from Barber's Point to Midway Island accounted for another plane. The flight returned via Johnson Island. Two of the radar-equiped WV-2's were flying from Japan to Cubi Point.
Of the three planes on the ground at the time, one was receiving a paint job at Alameda; one was in Atsugi; and the other was looking extremely lonely on AEWRon-1's flight line at NAS BARBER'S POINT.
Commanded by Capt. E. M. Morgan, AEWRon-1's principal mission is to provide airborne radar for the Fleet.
