These FAA aircraft were rebuilt Navy R-4Ds, upgraded.

In December 1969, I joined FAA, Flight Inspector Field Office (FIFO) in Atlantic City, NJ. In the spring of 1970, I was transferred to the Columbus, Ohio FIFO and flew out of Columbus doing Navaids Flight inspection over Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and part of Pennsylvania. At times we used a V-35 Bonanza aircraft for flight inspections.

In 1972, Columbus FIFO closed down and I was sent to the Bedford, MA FIFO which operated all over Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and northeastern New York.

Then in 1974, the Bedford FIFO closed down and I went back to the Atlantic City FIFO, which now covered the sixteen northeastern states – Maine to Virginia and west to Pittsburgh.

Great flying nearly every day, five days a week, with nighttime inspections at Newark, NJ, JFK, and LaGuardia.

In 1974-75, we started to get North American Rockwell AC-1121-B Jet Commanders with some automatic flight inspection equipment and the DC-3s were retired.

At this time, my total C-47, Gooney Bird and DC-3 flight time approached six thousand hours.

We also used the Piper P-23 Aztec, Beechcraft C-33 Debonair, Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza, and Cessna Cardinal RG, mostly for radar flight inspection. Also used Beechcraft Baron and Beechcraft Bonanza A-36.