Postwar, the newly minted U.S. Air Force decided to name each of its
airfields after a dead hero from the state in which the field was
located. So when the Strategic Air Command got a base outside
Portsmouth NH in 1956, it was named for Harlan Pease (pronounced
'peas' with a long e, not 'peace'), a B-17 pilot who was one of the
scores of American and British Commonwealth pilots murdered at Rabaul.
www.warbirdforum.com/prisoner.htm

With the end of the Cold War, SAC went out of business and Pease Air
Force Base was handed over to the local community with the identifier
PSM. Its offical name became Pease International Tradeport.

Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine, and as I
passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.
Rest in peace, Harlan Pease! Your immorality has been repealed.

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:50:00 -0400, Cubdriver <usenet AT danford.net>
wrote:

>Postwar, the newly minted U.S. Air Force decided to name each of its
>airfields after a dead hero from the state in which the field was
>located. So when the Strategic Air Command got a base outside
>Portsmouth NH in 1956, it was named for Harlan Pease (pronounced
>'peas' with a long e, not 'peace'), a B-17 pilot who was one of the
>scores of American and British Commonwealth pilots murdered at Rabaul.
>www.warbirdforum.com/prisoner.htm
>
>With the end of the Cold War, SAC went out of business and Pease Air
>Force Base was handed over to the local community with the identifier
>PSM. Its offical name became Pease International Tradeport.
>
>Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine, and as I
>passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
>response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.
>Rest in peace, Harlan Pease! Your immorality has been repealed.

immortality ...surely.

Stealth Pilot

In article >,
Cubdriver <usenet AT danford.net> wrote:

> Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine,

Was a beautiful afternoon/evening for flying. I was up over
Lake Winnihoweveritisspelled around 6pm.

>and as I
> passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
> response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.

That controller better get to used to being called Pease Tower,
Power Ground, etc. Heck, Sunday night Boston Approach told several
aircraft to contact Pease Tower, frequency changed approved.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

> >Rest in peace, Harlan Pease! Your immorality has been repealed.
>
> immortality ...surely.

I dunno. Immorality for all eternity don't sound too bad, either...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I'll bet this happens a lot. "Hanscom" as in L.G. Hanscom Air Field
has been KBED, Bedford, for a long time. I believe it stopped being a
USAF air field in the 50's.

The reverse happens and the old name is forgotten. Nobody calls
Manchester (NH) "Grenier" anymore. And I believe Orlando used to be an
airbase.



Bob Noel wrote:
> In article >,
> Cubdriver <usenet AT danford.net> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine,
>
> Was a beautiful afternoon/evening for flying. I was up over
> Lake Winnihoweveritisspelled around 6pm.
>
>> and as I
>> passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
>> response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.
>
> That controller better get to used to being called Pease Tower,
> Power Ground, etc. Heck, Sunday night Boston Approach told several
> aircraft to contact Pease Tower, frequency changed approved.
>

Cubdriver opined

>Postwar, the newly minted U.S. Air Force decided to name each of its
>airfields after a dead hero from the state in which the field was
>located. So when the Strategic Air Command got a base outside
>Portsmouth NH in 1956, it was named for Harlan Pease (pronounced
>'peas' with a long e, not 'peace'), a B-17 pilot who was one of the
>scores of American and British Commonwealth pilots murdered at Rabaul.
>www.warbirdforum.com/prisoner.htm

>With the end of the Cold War, SAC went out of business and Pease Air
>Force Base was handed over to the local community with the identifier
>PSM. Its offical name became Pease International Tradeport.

>Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine, and as I
>passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
>response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.
>Rest in peace, Harlan Pease! Your immorality has been repealed.

I flew into Pease a couple of weeks go, and it is hard to get oahold of Pease
tower. Portsmouth tower responds quickly though.


-ash
Cthulhu in 2005!
Why wait for nature?

"Ash Wyllie" > wrote in message
...
> Cubdriver opined
>
>>Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine, and as I
>>passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
>>response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.
>>Rest in peace, Harlan Pease! Your immorality has been repealed.
>
> I flew into Pease a couple of weeks go, and it is hard to get oahold of
> Pease
> tower. Portsmouth tower responds quickly though.

The old Williams AFB near Phoenix converted to a reliever some years ago
(five or ten??) and It's now Williams Gateway. I noticed a lot of people
calling it "Gateway", though it seems the controllers will respond to either
name.

"Cubdriver" <usenet AT danford.net> wrote in message
...
>
> Postwar, the newly minted U.S. Air Force decided to name each of its
> airfields after a dead hero from the state in which the field was
> located. So when the Strategic Air Command got a base outside
> Portsmouth NH in 1956, it was named for Harlan Pease (pronounced
> 'peas' with a long e, not 'peace'), a B-17 pilot who was one of the
> scores of American and British Commonwealth pilots murdered at Rabaul.
> www.warbirdforum.com/prisoner.htm
>

Portsmouth Municipal Airport became Portsmouth Air Force Base on February
1st, 1955. It became Pease Air Force Base on September 7th, 1957.


>
> With the end of the Cold War, SAC went out of business and Pease Air
> Force Base was handed over to the local community with the identifier
> PSM. Its offical name became Pease International Tradeport.
>
> Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine, and as I
> passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
> response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.
> Rest in peace, Harlan Pease! Your immorality has been repealed.
>

"Pease Tower" still appears on current documents. Could be just a
controller with issues.

Stubby wrote:
> I'll bet this happens a lot. "Hanscom" as in L.G. Hanscom Air Field
> has been KBED, Bedford, for a long time. I believe it stopped being a
> USAF air field in the 50's.
>
> The reverse happens and the old name is forgotten. Nobody calls
> Manchester (NH) "Grenier" anymore. And I believe Orlando used to be an
> airbase.

Indeed, Orlando International used to be McCoy Air Force Base (after it
was Pine Castle Air Base, the Bell X-1 was glide tested there.). That's
why baggage tags still say MCO and the indetifier is KMCO. The other
airport (actally there are 4 airports which have Orlando in the name),
KORL is Orlando Executive, formerly Herdon. That's where I fly out of.

KMCO had one runway when I was a kid. The SAC base was on the West side
and the airport was on the East side, and they shut down the airport
when SAC scrambled their B-52s.

John Stevens
PP-ASEL

"Stubby" > wrote in message
. ..
>
> I'll bet this happens a lot. "Hanscom" as in L.G. Hanscom Air Field has
> been KBED, Bedford, for a long time. I believe it stopped being a USAF
> air field in the 50's.
>

Hanscom Air Force Base is still in operation. It has no flying mission,
transient USAF aircraft use the runways of Laurence G. Hanscom Field which
is adjacent to the base. Flight operations ceased in September 1973, the
last flying unit assigned there was, I believe, the 731st Tactical Airlift
Squadron which operated the Fairchild C-123.

Hanscom Field was named for a local proponent of civil aviation. Laurence
Gerard Hanscom was a Boston pilot and newspaper reporter, a founder of the
Massachusetts Civil Air Reserve. He was killed in the crash of his Fleet
biplane in February 1941.

Incidentally, the newly minted U.S. Air Force did NOT name each of its
airfields after a dead hero from the state in which the field was located.
If the field was already named for a person when the USAF assumed control it
remained named for that person, with perhaps only a minor change to identify
it as an Air Force Base.

For example, K. I. Sawyer Airport was named for Kenneth Ingalls Sawyer, the
county road commissioner that in 1941 proposed the site for an airport. It
became K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base in 1956 and Sawyer International Airport
when the USAF left about eight years ago.


>
> The reverse happens and the old name is forgotten. Nobody calls
> Manchester (NH) "Grenier" anymore. And I believe Orlando used to be an
> airbase.
>

Orlando International Airport was formerly McCoy Air Force Base, named for
Colonel Michael McCoy. Between 1951 and 1958 it was called Pinecastle Air
Force Base, named for a nearby town. Colonel McCoy was the commander of the
321st Bombardment Wing, which was based at Pinecastle. He was killed in an
aircraft accident in November 1957, the base was renamed in his honor the
following year. The USAF closed the base in 1974.

In article et>,
"Steven P. McNicoll" > wrote:

> > I'll bet this happens a lot. "Hanscom" as in L.G. Hanscom Air Field has
> > been KBED, Bedford, for a long time. I believe it stopped being a USAF
> > air field in the 50's.
> >
>
> Hanscom Air Force Base is still in operation. It has no flying mission,

well, HAFB does have one aircraft (a 707). Not to mention the T-41's owned
by the USAF Aeroclub, Hanscom Flight Training Center, and warriors, arrows,
a C-172, and a Baron.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
> "Pease Tower" still appears on current documents. Could be just a
> controller with issues.

A controller with issues? Those don't exist do they? :b

> wrote in message
ups.com...
>
> A controller with issues? Those don't exist do they? :b
>

They do, unfortunately.