Landscaping students pitch in to beautify radar site
Ohio Hi-Point students in Cole Carpenter’s outdoor careers program work atop Campbell Hill to install landscaping and engraved pavers around a radar dish Tuesday afternoon. The on-campus project is being done in advance of the arrival of the 664th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron for its biennial reunion. ALSO PICTURED IN WEDNESDAY’S EXAMINER: A new AC&WS welcome center, displays for which are still being finished, will feature uniformed mannequins, a scale model of the Bellefontaine radar base and other memorabilia from the era. (EXAMINER PHOTOS | REUBEN MEES)
When members of the 664th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron and Air Force veterans from other radar stations nationwide gather for their biennial reunion in June, they will find a variety of new features on the campus of the Ohio Hi-Point Career Center.
At the top of Campbell Hill, where the buildings that once supported the FPS-6 and FPS-26 radar dishes still stand, senior students in the outdoor careers program were busy Tuesday completing a landscaping project around the area that is planned as a home for the National Air Defense Radar Museum.
Meanwhile, new displays are being created inside a welcome center that once was one of the houses on the Bellefontaine Air Force Station where officers lived. The base at Ohio’s highest point was established in 1951 at the outset of the Cold War and continued to function through 1969 as a domestic advanced warning system for incoming aircraft or missiles.
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