Recent Photos of Marietta AFS, GA

The first four circa-2014 aerial photos below from Bing Maps "Bird's Eye" views show that the former Air Force Operations building and the last AN/FPS-6 height-finder radar tower have now been removed.  

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Looking North 


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Looking East 


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Looking South 


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Looking West 

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Earlier aerial photos from Bing Maps "Bird's Eye" imagery: 

Looking North 


Looking East


Looking South 


Looking West

GATR Photos

GATR Site (Looking North) 


GATR Site (Looking East) 


GATR Site (Looking South) 


GATR Site (Looking West) 


circa 2003, photo source: http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1083731427032481082VsfvDJ 


The following July, 2000 photos contributed by Tom Page

FAA ARSR-1


Operations building, now used by USMC. ARSR-1 in the background to the right. The tower in the background, left center, was one of the two the USAF AN/FPS-6 height-finder radar towers. 


Old USAF radar tower which once housed one of the two AN/FPS-6 height-finder radars.  (The other -6 tower was located near the site's entrance, and is no longer extant.) 


FAA ARSR-1, looking north.  One Air Force AN/FPS-6 height-finder radar tower on the far left (foreground).  


January 2000 photos and notes by Mike LaRoche

I was in Marietta month or so ago on business and while I didn`t have time to get permision to go inside I was able to snap a few pictures of the former Marietta AFS from outside the fence. Hope to get some better ones sometime in the future.

The first is of the ARSR1-C with what appears to be a different radome than the ARSR1-F we had a Richmond AFS. The second is of the abandoned tower that sits just past the ARSR; I had written at one time that I thought that this was an AN/FPS-26 tower but I'm not so sure now, as it looks more like a search radar tower.  [Editor's Note:  We now know that the arctic-style radar tower in question once housed an AN/FPS-6 height-finder radar, one of two.]