[Milsurplus] High & Mighty / GI electronics (and Island in theSky)

[Mike Morrow]

Jack wrote:

>I have certainly heard of ART-13s and BC-348s in airline service,
>and remember seeing an airline mod of ARC-1 for extra channels, but
>how about ADF's, Loran, radio(radar) altimeters etc?


I have a 1965 PanAM airline radio installation manual.  Some of the military
stuff listed in aircraft readio inventory:

B707 (1965)
AN/APN-9 LORAN
SCR-718 (!!) radar altimeter
AN/CRT-3 500 kc Gibson Girl
AN/URC-14 (121.5 mc version of the common URC-11 243 mc pilot survival
radio)
HS-33 headset

SA-16  (1960)
18S  HF, a.k.a. AN/ARC-59
AN/ARC-1  VHF-AM
AN/ARN-7 ADF
AN/APN-9 LORAN
AN/AIC-3 ICS
T-17  mic
HS-33  headset
AN/CRT-3

DC-3  (1963)
MN-26 RDF
AN/ARC-1 VHF

DC-4  (1963)
AN/ART-13   HF transmitter
CU-25/ART-13  LF tank coil
AR-144  HF receiver (Commercial 144 channel crystal control)
AN/ARC-1 VHF
BC-733 localizer
AN/ARN-5A glide slope
AN/ARN-7 ADF
AN/CRT-3
AN/URC-14
SCR-718
AN/APN-9

DC-6 military support (1965)
AN/ARC-34  UHF AM
AN/ARN-21  TACAN
AN/APN-9
SCR-718
AN/CRT-3
AN/APX-25

It appears that military gear found its way into regular use with the
airlines well into the 1960s.  Some gear, like the RT-350/URC-14, may never
actually have been deployed in US military service.

Mike / KK5F