463rd Airlifters Association

Dedicated to preserving the heritage of the airlift units assigned to the "463rd" and promoting comradery among all members, past and present.

NOTICE -> The 2012 Reunion for the 463rd Airlifters Association will be held at the Branson MO, Ramada.

The Reunion dates are as follows:
September 4, 2012 Tuesday
 Registration and Sign In
September 5, 2012 Wednesday
 Hospitality Room
September 6, 2012 Thursday
 Hospitality Room
September 7, 2012 Friday
 Hospitality Room, Cookout
September 8, 2012 Saturday
 Hospitality Room, Banquet
September 9, 2012
 Sunday
 Depart AM

Download the 2012 Reunion Form.

>  Help is needed in the form of information for our Newsletter.  Mike Gaylor's daughter is helping us out by making the newsletter, but she needs input to accomplish the task.  As of now she hasn't received any information to put in the newsletter.  Without any input it's almost impossible to form a letter, so if anyone has anything that the members would be interested in please forward it in form of an e-mail Anne Marie at emtpellegrin at gmail.com | Hint: Replace the at in the address with @

Reunion 2010 was held 8 August - 11 August 2010 at the Hope Hotel outside Wright Patterson AFB, OH.

See photos of the reunion thanks to Brad Ludwig and John McLaughlin

View previous Reunion Group photos

View the 2003 Reunion photo album

View the 2004 Reunion photo album

2005 Reunion photos: Hospitality Room / Cookout / 445th AW visit / Banquet pg 1 / Banquet pg 2 / Miscellaneous

2006 Reunion photos: Page 1 / Page 2 / Page 3 / Thanks to Shaky and Dan Flanagan for supplying the photos!

2007 Reunion photos: Page 1 / Page 2 / Thanks to Bruce Langerlan for supplying the photos!

2008 Reunion photos: Index / Page 1 / Page 2 / Page 3 / Page 4 / Page 5 / Page 6 /

2009 Reunion photos: Thanks to Jim Williams

463rd Airlifters Association Newsletters in Adobe Acrobat PDF Form.

Jan-Mar 2006 click here Apr-Jun 2006 click here Jul-Sep 2006 click here
Oct 2006 -Mar 200 click here Apr 2007 -Aug 2007 click here Sep 2007 -Mar 2008 click here
Mar 2008 -Aug 200 click here Sep 2008 -Mar 2009 click here  
Jan-Mar 2010 click here Apr-Jun 2010 click here  Jan-Mar 2011 click here

Read the Wikipedia entry on the 463d 

C-130 Articles from AMC News Service "Air Force hero marks 50 years of service"

Please fill out the 463rd Members Information Form

There have been problems with the Members Information Form posting process for several months.

As of 21 March 2008 the issue has been resolved and the form data will be submitted properly.

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Officers as elected at the 2009 Reunion. Jerry Haines, President; Robert Powell, Vice-President; Rick Kirkpatrick, Secretary; Ralph Fischer, Treasurer; Joseph Mobely, Chaplin; Mike Gaylor, Archivist/Historian; Phil Tenny, Pacific Time Zone Coordinator; James Williams, Mountain Time Zone Coordinator; Earl Schurman, Central Time Zone Coordinator; Eugene Carriker, Eastern Time Zone Coordinator.



 

463TAW plaque in U.S. Air Force Museum memorial garden dedicated at the 2003 Reunion

     



View Fred Shippey's photos of the 463rd TCW / TAW in 1967.

For those of you that served on Mactan, I have made available WELCOME TO MACTAN and the 15 Dec 66 (Vol. I No. 20) issue of YANKEE DOODLE in Acrobat PDF file format. Welcome to Mactan is 2.8MB and the Yankee Doodle is 7.8MB.

New as of 20 Dec 05    
Bob Frost has contributed an issue of the YANKEE DOODLE from 1967.
10 Apr 67 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.II No.7   7.3MB

New as of 21 Jan 06

Col. Gene Aenchbacher has contributed eight issues of the YANKEE DOODLE from his 1966 tenure as 463rd TCW Commander.

21 Feb 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.1   3.0MB
4 Apr 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.4   5.5MB
23 May 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.7   6.0MB
25 Jul 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.11   5.4MB
22 Aug 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.13   5.7MB
5 Sep 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.14   7.2MB
19 Sep 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.15   8.0MB
10 Oct 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.16   6.8MB
     

New as of 22 Jan 06    
Rodman "Rocky" Rocke has contributed two issues of the YANKEE DOODLE from 1966.
31 Oct 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.17   6.8MB
14 Nov 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.18   7.2MB


   
463rd TCW sergeant major CMSGT Jim Mills, Jr. has contributed three issues of the YANKEE DOODLE from 1966. The last page of Vol. 1 No.8 has a very nice profile of him. Thanks, Chief!
1 May 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.6   6.0MB
6 Jun 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.8   6.0MB
4 Jul 66 YANKEE DOODLE Vol.I No.10   6.0MB


If any of you have other old documents like these, let me know so we can make arrangements to have them scanned to be put on this site.


View all submitted photos.

Windell Driskell; Tony Moody; Jim Taylor; John Hanna; Jerry Haines; Tom White; Jim DeArman; Joe Hitchcock; Clarence Dick; Bob Powell (Mactan, The Breeze Way, TSN, Clark, People); Don Gruber

463rd history

For more information send an email message to webmaster at 463rdairliftersassoc.org | Hint: Replace the at in the address with @

Fred Shippey, 29 January 2012


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