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- Unidentified ATC personnel at work in the control tower at Rockcliffe - 15 May 1968.
Courtesy Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre.
- RCAF Station Rockcliffe "Curling Pin" - 1964.
Courtesy Jim Dunn.
- RCAF Station Rockcliffe on Air Force Day - 11 June 1955.
Courtesy NAC PA-068668.
- F/O Sid Clements and F/L Deblicquy on duty in the control tower - 12 November 1953.
Courtesy Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre.
- GCA Equipment truck - 13 November 1951.
This MPN-1C is the Rockcliffe unit, serial 2K54-A42.
Courtesy Canadian Forces Digital Imagery Centre.
- Larger image of the GCA Equipment truck - 13 November 1951.
This photo shows the unit with no Search antenna or Elevation antenna. This was because we had stripped it down so that we could transport it over to Uplands by road in the wee hours of the morning - which we did.
Courtesy Canadian Forces Digital Imagery Centre.
- GCA Equipment truck - 10 April 1950.
This MPN-1C is the Rockcliffe unit, serial 2K54-A42, and Sgt Falardeau was there on staff when I arrived in May 1951. The other Rockcliffe Controllers were F/O Jim Honour OC, F/S "Red" O'Neill, F/S Joe Darby, Sgt Ferdie Falardeau, Sgt Emmett Brownrigg, Cpl George Roy and myself (KD Macdonald). Honour, O'Neill, Darby and Falardeau all trained at San Bernadino California.
Courtesy Canadian Forces Digital Imagery Centre.
- Sgt J Falerdeau operating the GCA equipment - 10 April 1950.
The GCA equipment is the same MPN-1 that was used at the GCA School at Dorval.
Courtesy Canadian Forces Digital Imagery Centre.
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