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1974 - Senior Agent Phil Felcher and Agent Armando Barreiro with U. S. Air Force Lockheed VC-140B-LM Jetstar #61-2488

General Aviation Center, Miami International Airport, Florida


USAF Lockheed VC-140B-LM Jetstar #61-2488 (MSN 1329-5017) went to MASDC as CL0001. It is now on display at Warner Robins AFB Museum, Georgia as of December 1995.


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Don Boyd06-May-2010 04:10
Tony passed within the past six months as I recall. He and I started on the same day on March 11, 1974 along with Clair Sherrick and Joe Davidson who left to join the circus after transferring to Terminal Ops.

I didn't know that Mr. Mayor passed. RIP Al! Thanks for the info on Ralph.

Lonny ran into Joyce in a store in Kendall a couple of years ago. I forget what he said about her. I ran into Maurice Alvey at WalMart just west of the airport a year or two before I retired in 2000 - I was behind him and and his wife at the checkout line and he seemed the same but older. I've got to find more old photos of these characters and get them up on the site so that they're never forgotten, haha.

Stay in touch Armando! We should have lunch together someday in the future and catch up on old times.

Don
Don Boyd02-May-2010 20:27
I'm sorry for the misspelling, Armando. I really did know how to spell your last name but when I work on photos til 3 or 4am my brain isn't working at 100%.

That's funny about Felcher, he sure had some quirks from time to time. He ordered me to leave the field check over on the military ramp, Airlift ramp, southwest corner at least five times one afternoon, having to call the tower each time to cross 9L and 12, to catch private flights arriving at Aero Facilities even though they were logging in as required by Aero Facilities. It was so pointless and stupid and he wouldn't bend on his faulty logic. So I filed a complaint against him with Royster and Royster reamed him good. Felcher transferred to Landside Ops soon after that.

I do have more old photos, somewhere in boxes that contain photos in no semblance of order and when I find them I'll scan them and put them on the site. There should be a shot of Craig Reitz in this gallery along with Drum and Dinkins in a group shot of senior agents and another of the gate controllers. You do know that Tony passed a while ago, right? Just a two-line obituary in the paper and somewhere at the airport verified that it was him. RIP Tony!

Yeah, it took me a while to decide to go into gate assignment. I hated the idea of being cooped up in an office for the full shift but there were three ramp 20 shifts we could bid for when we got antsy so I finally went for it in the beginning of 1978.

Don
Armando Barreiro 02-May-2010 17:51
Hi, Don. You got around with that camera, didn't you?

Do me a favor and edit the caption for this image to read "...Armando Barreiro...", won't you? I know that English grammar says " i before e except after c ", but not when it comes to proper names, right?

It's good to reminisce, and to remember is to relive.

Felcher had just pulled up into GAC and on his way back out he asked me the aircraft's point of origin. I had logged them in, 3 crew members - no pax inbound, and the captain had said "the Bahamas". That was back under Jimmy Carter's watch, gas was not easy to get and becoming expensive.

I never asked who they had dropped off?, not my job, but Felcher wanted to know and that is what he asked me. The crew was there, obviously. He could have asked them himself but he didn't.

Have you any pictures of Earl Pomeroy, Riddell, Joyce Krenson, Baglio, Marinelli, Joe Cooper, Alvey, Madariaga, Bob Royster, McGinnis, Korappi, Bruce Drum, Tony Dinkins?

Pomeroy, Reitz, Krenson, Ms O'regan and I were the first ones to deal with the gate assignments. At the time I asked if you wouldn't prefer it over ramp work and you said that you weren't interested. You had only recently become a ramp agent.

I was sick and tired of the rotating shift work and of being bored from doing nothing and getting paid for it, so I tried transferring to land-side but "Stogie" wouldn't have it, so I quit.

Armando