Site - 2007 - Looking North
Site - 2007 - Looking East
GATR Site - 2007 - Looking East
GATR Site - 2007 - Looking West
Not much left to look at now - looking North
Housing area - 2007 - Looking West
Housing area - looking South
2011 photos contributed by Ken Zwizanski
Ken writes:
I recently read that there is a plaque about Palermo at Osprey Point, in front of the club house. My wife and I were in Cape May NJ, and we stopped at Osprey Point and took the photos [below]. It`s a pretty nice gesture from the present owners that this is here. I thought it would be a nice addition to the pictures already in the museum for Palermo.
Fall 2007 photos Contributed by Ken Zwizanski
September 2003 photos contributed by Jim Maher
Jim writes:
The only remnant of
the Station is the former antenna tower barely visible in the background.
They presumably have left that intact because there is an Osprey nest on the
platform. Wish the name they had chosen were more relevant to what used to
go on there.
The guy kneeling is a cutout.
2003 Demolition photos contributed by Jim Maher
December 2002 photos contributed by Michael Binder
Osprey Point Adult Community. Sign at entrance to former Palermo AFS, NJ
Rubble pile marking site of demolished FPS-65 tower.
View NW toward entrance from big shovel.
View NE. Monitoring wells in foreground.
View SSE toward gap-filler & GATR buildings.
View S, toward family housing area.
Summer 1998 photos and notes by Tom Page, Radomes Staff
These four photos are views of the former Palermo AFS, NJ (Z-54). The site, now heavily overgrown, is situated south of Atlantic City, between US 9 and The Garden State Parkway. The one remaining radar tower housed the AN/FPS-65 search radar. Foundations for one of the two AN/FPS-6 series height-finder radars -- temperate towers -- can be seen in the undergrowth on the south side of the search radar tower. The search radar tower itself was badly rusting; there were several places where the floor was rusted through. One had to walk very carefully. Two photos of the site were taken from the top of the search radar tower, including the view of the GATR site (R-14 / R-28).
