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Published: 2012-12-25 18:47:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 509; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 9
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Just east of Santa Rosa NM is a former NM Guard A-7D at the Santa Rosa Airport.I stopped there in this aircraft [link] for gas when I was ferrying the airplane from the Cessna factory at KIDP Kansas to our FBO at KGEU Arizona.
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Looks like a scene out of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," just appeared in the desert in the middle of the night. Neat.
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It is pretty barren out there...
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yeah. It was a pretty empty airport. I got gas there when I was bringing this airplane home from cessna to Glendale AZ [link] . Due to high winds I had to gas up in Winslow AZ as well.
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That's a bit unexpected... it has a look like somebody just landed it there and walked away... XD
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It may have been trucked there (most likely) from the "Taco's" base at Kirtland AFB in ABQ.
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... I misread that first as "the Taco Bell at Kirtland AFB"... XD
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The NM guard was called the "Taco's"
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I see!
Meh, the closest thing we ever had to a National Guard was an "Auxiliary Squadron", and that went out together with the Gloster Meteors some fifty-five years ago...
But then again, our country's just a hankerchief's size compared to the US...
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The National Guards came out of the "Militias" from the revolutionary war era.
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I see! Our "auxiliaries" dated back to WWII and the Air Force structure from the Royal Air Force, though they did have an origin that could be dated back to their Army counterpart, the conscripted "reserves".
However, while the advent of modern, specialised equipment spelled the end of the Air Force Auxiliaries - little sense in teaching pilots to fly such advanced equipment as the Hawker Hunter/F-84F/F-104G, only to have them then fly on weekend basis - the end of the Cold War spelled the end of the conscription. Otherwise I would have had to do a year's service, like my uncles (well, two out of three) before me...
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OK. We still have the National Guard for the Army as well as the USAF. The Navy and Air Force has reserve components.
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poor thing, just sitting there rusting away, uncared for.
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I had to shoot this over the airport fence. I remember that when we flew in, we had to contact the Santa Rosa PD by phone to have someone come out to gas us up. It is a pretty barren airport.
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