HAWAII AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY
MISSION STATEMENT: WE ARE DEDICATED TO PRESERVING HAWAII'S AVIATION HERITAGE BY RESEARCHING AND RECORDING THE AVIATION HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. we will endeavor to preserve historic aircraft and to memorialize the aviators who gave their lives in the service of their country. Our goal is to inform and educate the public of the rich aviation heritage of Hawaii.
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PHOTO OF THE MONTH
Barbers Point VC-1 DP2E With BQM Target Drones Off Oahu 4-24-73
Courtesy USN Fleet Aviation Photo Lab
Click on Photo for an overhead View
Six WWII B-24 Memorial Granite Markers Hopefully to Be Dedicated at Hickam Field Hopefully this Year
click the link above for an image of the finished of the granite plaques
3/14/10 update
The Air Force Association (AFA) controls the placing of memorials in Atterbury Circle on Hickam AFB. We have been trying to get approval from them since last October and thus far have been able to get approval or answers to our basic questions. Stay Tuned...
Recent!
David Trojan Essay on Big Island B-18 Bolo Crash
(Large 5mb MS Word File)
Recent!
1943 Map of NAS Pearl Harbor Map in PDF format from John Bennett
Updated Photo Galleries with 1944 NAS Approach Charts
PHOTOS OF NAS PEARL HARBOR IN 1945 AND 1946 by Joe Genne'
(Plus updated 1930s JPGs from John Bennett On the Luke Field/NAS Pearl Harbor Pages, click above)
Other Website Highlights Below
The USAF and HAPS dedicated a granite memorial at the Nu'uanu Pali Lookout on 4/5/07, the 65th anniversary of the crash.
For more information and a photo gallery of the crash site and dedication, click here.
NAS Kahului Added to Historic Airfield Pages
August 21, 1945 F6F-5 Ko'olau Fatal Crash Site Surveyed
P-40K 42-46209 12/9/42 Fatal Crash Site Surveyed
July 28, 1945 B-24J Crash Site at Schofield Surveyed
Dec 16, 1942 B-24D Crash Site on Oahu Surveyed
78th Fighter Squadron " Bushmasters" in Hawaii During WWII
Former Bellows based P-51 fighter pilot tells of his shoot down and capture over Japan on 7/3/45
Beautification and Renovation project in the BP NAS Tower Building (Bldg 4)
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