Recent Photos of Eufaula AFS, AL

March 2005 photos contributed by Mark Morgan, TSgt, Washington ANG


GATR building


GATR building


February 1999 photos and notes by Tom Page
Email: tepage@hotmail.com

Tom writes:
"I elected to follow back roads (state route 5 north to route 10 east, all the way to Clio, where I picked up route 51 north to state route 30 east to Eufaula. The former Eufaula AFS sits alongside Outback Road, just north of route 30, and about 6 miles west of route 30`s intersection with US Route 431 (Eufaula). The site is now the Eufaula Youth Center. It was getting dark as I arrived at the site, not suitable for photography. I went to the visitor`s building, and was able to contact the center`s director. After explaining the purpose for my visit, I was given permission to come back the next morning, and — with an escort — take pictures of the buildings. I found a motel in Eufaula for the night. Later that evening, the weather front passed through, and the weather the next morning was again fair ... though overcast. Back at the former Eufaula AFS the next morning, I was allowed to tour the site with the escort. I observed that two footings of the prototype AN/FPS-24 tower (see photo on the web site) were still visible. Just north of the AN/FPS-24 equipment building, a cable trough led to the suspected site of the AN/FPS-90 tower; although no footings remained, this nonetheless confirmed (to me, anyway) where that tower used to stand. Across the site`s entrance road still stands the old AN/FPS-26A radar tower (standard arctic style). Note that other AN/FPS-26 heightfinder radar towers were square, not `rounded` like this one; a standard tower was used here because this AN/FPS-26 radar was the prototype (S/N 001), installed before the standard square tower was conceived. [Note that the prototype AN/FPS-27 at Crystal Springs AFS was in this rounded type of tower, not the tall concrete tower used later for production AN/FPS-27 radars.]"


Note that the tower is not the typical square shape of other AN/FPS-26 towers (this was because the radar was the prototype).


View of the old AN/FPS-26 heightfinder radar tower, as seen from the barracks area (looking east-southeast).


View of the cantonment area (looking east).


Prototype AN/FPS-24 search-radar building (right), with two visible tower footings just to its west. [The other two tower footings were covered over, but the locations were discernable.] View is to the east-northeast.


The building at the end of the road (far west end of the site) appears to have been the old GATR building. It has the right shape and size, plus there`s a 3-phase transformer bank on the northwestern side.


View of the family-housing area across the road (Outback Road), beyond the trees. View is from the barracks area, looking ~ southwest.


View of the former radar site from the old trailer-court area, across the road and just east of the family-housing area (looking northeast).


Another view of the former radar site from the road (looking north).


Yet another view of the former radar site from the road, east end of the site (looking northwest). LRR Operations building is in center.


1999 photos below contributed by Rick Walker

AN/FPS-26 tower

GATR Building