Bob Finch’s Look at Cold War Airshows at Stewart AFB

Cold War interceptor – a Convair F-102A Delta Dagger at Stewart Air Force Base

Photos by Bob Finch

Here’s a collection of photos from several open houses and air shows at New York’s Stewart Air Force Base during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Stewart was a Cold War Air Defense Command’s command and control and fighter base located less than an hour’s drive north of New York City. Today, the base is a joint use facility, with civilian airlines and general aviation operating alongside C-17s of the New York Air National Guard’s 105th Airlift Wing. The active military units in these photos have long been dissolved. Bob Finch was using slide film at that time and has scanned some of them for us to admire. 

Lockheed F-94A Starfire

Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star

Convair C-131 and Douglas C-54

North American F-86D Sabre

Northrop F-89 Scorpion

McDonnell F-101B Voodoo

Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker

Beech T-34A Mentor

Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star

Royal Canadian Air Force CF-100 Canuck

Fairchild C-123 Provider

Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

North American TB-25

Martin EB-57 Canberra

Beech C-45 Expeditor

U. S. Army Nike Ajax SAM

U. S. Navy Lockheed P2V Neptune

U. S. Navy Douglas DB-26

U. S. Army Sikorsky CH-34

Convair F-1012A Delta Dagger