Recent Visitors

In the past few weeks we have had some noteworthy visitor activity. A critical cycling accident on the Plum Island bridge necessitated the evacuation of the injured cyclist by medical helicopter.The importance of the access to the airport cannot be emphasised enough in situations like this.
Another visit by helicopter recently was one of a military mission, where a local serviceman, who had been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, was picked up by an Army helo, piloted by another local serviceman, and flown to a site for advance special training. Thanks to all that serve.(Helo photos by Richard Neville)








Jim and Jane Mengenhauser are from Alexandria Virginia. Jane grew up in Haverhill and spent summers on Plum Island. Her family now lives in Plaistow and Jane regularly visits them. Jim was not always keen on making the trip; that is until he found out that Plum Island Airport was a Birddog(L-19) roost. You see Jim, a Ph.D. research chemist, flew Birddogs in Korea for the US Army from 1956 till 1958. On his return to the states he qualified as a Senior Aviator at Ft. Bliss and checked out in a variety of Army aircraft. To make his visit more memorable, Steve (Noyes that is) took Jim up in the Super Dog.

Last Thursday, Diane Viera, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Historic New England (our landlord) stopped by with members of the Board of Trustees of HNE after touring the Spencer-Peirce-Little farm. Charlie Eaton presented PIA history in the Burgess Museum and Steve led the tour of the hangar as well as pointing out the future site of hangar2. Yours truly tagged along adding post scripts throughout the visit.