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"Stewart Airport continues to play role in Katrina relief"
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Stewart Airport continues to play role in Katrina relief
The Hudson Valley (NY) News
Cargo planes from the New York Air National Guard and the Marine Corps
continue their missions of ferrying relief supplies into the hurricane torn
region of the Gulf. Those missions began late last weekend and are ongoing
along with similar efforts by other Guard units around the state.
Four days of shipping bottled water from Stewart to the hurricane zone are
winding down.
The water, ordered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was purchased
from Pioneer Water in Marlboro, NY and handled at Stewart by its fixed base
operator, Supermarine. That company worked around the clock for two days,
off-loading 14 tractor-trailer trucks of bottled water and re-loading them
on 10 separate flights of C-130s and DC-8s, for the victims.
By the time the water relief has been completed, Supermarine expects to have
pumped 56,000 gallons of jet fuel for the missions.
Attached Photo:
Marine KC-130s ready to go at Stewart
KC130-1.jpg
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