RCAF Air Traffic Control
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba


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  1. ATC section photo - June 1992.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  2. Larger image of the ATC section photo - June 1992.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  3. View of the control tower - 3 April 1992.
    Courtesy Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre.

  4. Larger image of the control tower - 3 April 1992.
    Courtesy Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre.

  5. Unidentified ATC employee in the control tower - 1 January 1992.
    Courtesy Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre.

  6. Front of the ATC Christmas card - December 1991.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  7. Inside of the ATC Christmas card - December 1991.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  8. The Control Tower and RAPCON building at Portage - 1990.
    The rest of the story.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  9. Frank Deegan (monitor) and Colonel Ray Henault on the mike - 1990.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  10. Air traffic control personnel in the control tower - 6 June 1989.
    (L-R) - Captain Sara Karcha (now Major) and with his back to the camera is MCpl Mike Maynard (now Sgt).
    Courtesy Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre.

  11. Checking the runway for scratches - 1988.
    Dick MacDonald (BFSO), Paul Wood and Frank Deegan examine the runway where a pilot contravened one of the essential rules of flight - "thou shalt not let thy propellor touch the runway during landing or takeoff".
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  12. Front of the ATC Christmas card - December 1986.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  13. Inside of the ATC Christmas card - December 1986.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  14. Aerial photo of the Control Tower and RAPCON - 1982.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  15. Larger aerial image of the Control Tower and RAPCON - 1982.
    Courtesy Frank Deegan.

  16. Quadradar (AN/TPN 501) conversion training course #11 - July 1980.
    Back row (L-R) - Sgt Wendell Fox, WO Dick Zielke, MWO Vic Gray, CWO Robbie Roberts, WO Ross Hartwell, Sgt Don Despins. Front row (L-R) - MCpl Dennis Pettigrew, MCpl Dave Knelson, Cpl Ron Hodgkins, MCpl Woody Fillier, MCpl Hank Odding, Sgt John Brent.
    The rest of the story.
    Courtesy Vic Gray.

  17. ATC Portage "CNIB" crest - 1971.
    Courtesy Nelson Lyon.

  18. Col DS McKechnie presenting Major KD Macdonald with five Base Commander commendations for ARC staff at Portage - 1970.
    Courtesy Kenneth "KD" Macdonald.

  19. Wartime hangar and the control tower "up in flames" - 1948.
    Courtesy Pal Olthser.


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