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Text Box: equipment. The chances of locating such a collection, if it existed, without any other information was slim at best, and would most likely remain an eerie legend. Museum member, Brian Heckman, who happens to live in Colorado managed to locate the collection – in Conroe, Texas. I asked Brian who had the collection. “A guy by the name of Aubrey King, do you know him?” It was true. The famous phantom collection had been found – and by someone living in Colorado! Aubrey King had had the foresight some 35 years ago to save an incredible piece of

Text Box: “Interesting and exciting” are not words that most of us would use to describe a piece of vintage radio equipment. Having said that, we have been enormously fortunate to have such a collection offered to us. There were legends that periodically surfaced about a collection of circa 1955 radio, weather, and teletype equipment that had been salvaged over 35 years ago from an old control tower. It is reported even today that a ghostly figure with a flashlight in his mouth can be seen toting off gray, metal boxes on dark and stormy nights in the dilapidated, brick structure that once held the

Text Box: aviation history by salvaging the equipment from a circa 1950 airport tower, and storing it in his garage. As a result of his efforts, the 1940 Air Terminal Museum will be able to offer visitors an authentic look at the real thing including very early teletype machines, weather and radio equipment unknown to most period museums. In addition, King saved documents, equipment manuals, flight service books and flight maps that have long become extinct. With the multitude of spare parts that is also part of the collection, it is a real possibility that some of the equipment can be made to work. Most

Text Box: of the equipment has been transferred to the Museum’s storage depot where we have begun the process of parts inventory, cleaning the equipment, and the sheer fun of determining the best way to exhibit the collection. Aubrey King is a 30-year plus career Flight Service Specialist who has used some of the equipment that he so thoughtfully saved from the junk pile. We will be grateful for his valuable counsel during the exhibit organization and installation process.