ALOHA from O'ahu
---Dillingham Airfield---
Dillingham Airfield is a public and military-use airport located about 3.5 miles (5.5 km) west of the town of Waialua. It is operated by the Hawai'i Department of Transportation under a 25-year lease from the United States Army. The airport is primarily used for gliding and sky diving operations. Military operations consist mainly of night operations for night vision device training.
A communications station called Camp Kawaihapai was established here in 1922 on 67 acres along the O'ahu Railway and Land Company line. In the 1920s and 1930s, the railroad transported mobile coast artillery to the site. By 1941, the Army leased additional land and established Mokule'ia Airstrip. Curtiss P-40 fighters were deployed at North Shore airstrips at Kahuku, Hale'iwa and Mokule'ia when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. Aircraft taking off from nearby Hale'iwa destroyed several attacking aircraft.
The runway was paved, extended to 9,000 feet (2,700 m) long, and a crosswind runway added from 1942-1945. By the end of World War II, Mokule'ia Airfield could handle B-29 Superfortress bombers. In 1946, the Army acquired an additional 583 acres. In 1948, the airfield was inactivated and renamed Dillingham Air Force Base in memory of Captain Henry Gaylord Dillingham, a B-29 pilot who was killed in action over Kawasaki, Japan on July 25, 1945. Captain Dillingham was the son of Walter F. Dillingham and grandson of Benjamin Dillingham who founded the railroad which evolved into Hawaiian Dredging Company and the Dillingham Corporation.
The television series LOST filmed several scenes at Dillingham Airfield, due to its remote location close to Oahu’s North Shore where most of the filming took place. The fuselage from the fictional Oceanic Airlines flight 815 was also stored at Dillingham and was transported to the beach when needed for filming.
You DO NOT need to enter the airfield to find the cache.
~~~For the puzzle, think of it as a different "Project Runway".~~~
Cache is at:
NORTH:
Ted Luark
Simko Field
Mile Hi
Dewey Moore
Vines Airstrip
Dewey Moore
Rahn
WEST:
Simko Field
James Ranch
Vines Airstrip
Crow Valley
Hasskamp
Ousel Falls
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