Klamath AFS, CA Recent Photos

The following photos are from the FUDS report
http://www.corpsfuds.com/php/siteindex.php?site=J09CA0003&state=California

FPS-26 Tower

FPS-64A Antenna

FPS-64A Feedhorn

View from the FPS-27 Tower

The California Coastline Project website (http://www.californiacoastline.org/) updates its photos periodically. Here is the October 2005 photo of the former Klamath AFS -- it is apparent that the old AN/FPS-27 search radar tower has now been removed.

August 2002 photos contributed by Don Erstad

Ops Building

FPS-26 Tower

Former base housing unit

From the "California Coastline" web site

Contributed by Eldon R. Payne

This is photo of old 26 tower. Taken from near where the operations building was.

This is phooto of the exhaust vent on the 26 tower. Why did I take this? Bottom right is off colored paint with "ding" in the metal. Don`t know if any one remembers this (Capt Kelly probably does), but my wife came up to get me one day; made a U-turn in front of tower and and smacked the tower vent. Looks like the effects of that incident is still there, 31 years later. Dependants were not to be in radar containment area.

Shot of search tower taken from hiway 101

Photo of NCO appartment housing

Photo of Commander`s home. After seeng the place it gives a great sense of pride knowing how we (the AIR FORCE) maintained the place and had it looking so neat. However, a bit of disappointment in seeing how the next proprietor maintained it.

Contributed by Roy Hartnell

The site is now used by the California Conservation Corps and the US Parks service. The radar towers are all domeless, except for the FPS-27 which has a new dome (and probably a different set inside) It is operated by the FAA.

Note from Tom Page: The FAA took over operation of the site for the JSS program as of 1 Oct 1979, then with an AN/FPS-64A search radar (and an AN/FPS-90 height-finder radar, subsequently modified to the AN/FPS-116 variant, and obviously now removed). The FAA renamed the place "Crescent City." Now, reportedly, a new joint-use radar site with an ARSR-4 radar has been built at a location (south of Klamath) called "Rainbow Ridge, CA." Presumably, when the new ARSR-4 is fully qualified, the radar site at Klamath will be shut down.

The base was in bad repair, nature has taken over much of the site, tall brush and trees replacing areas which was once green lawn. I am attaching a photo I shot on July 2, 1999. It is of the former FPS-27 tower where I worked in 1973/74.