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The Perrin Air Force Base Museum at 4575 Airport Drive, North Texas Regional Airport-Perrin Field, Denison, TX 75
All members and friends of the Perrin Air Force Base Museum are sincerely blessed once again! For all of our volunteers who showed up and demonstrated outstanding loyalty and dedication to our mission, everything went off with clock-work. We as an organization owe a debt of gratitude to Terry Rogers and his aircraft specialist of Air #1, Henry Scharff and his crane service, Larry Jester and his eighteen wheeler and the Sherman Police Department escort service. The Saber jet tail number # 51-6144 is safely back at Perrin after more than a half century on a Pedestal at Sherman's Post 29, American Legion. It awaits our continued volunteerism to get it cleaned up and ready for display. I am sure the North Texas Regional Airport/Perrin Field board appreciates our assistance in getting the Saber jet moved to Perrin plus whatever future work required to make it presentable for their airport aircraft static display project. Donations for the cleanup project are welcome.
F-86
L on pedestal for a half century at Post 29, American Legion in
Sherman, TX assigned to Perrin AFB Museum for static display at
Grayson County-Perrin Airport. (F86L Tail #16144 returns to Perrin!)
Will be on static display in the boulevard when cleaned up.
Plaque with data plates which were removed from Japanese war
weapons (rifles, tanks, radios and airplanes) during World War II
battles on Luzon, New Guinea, and other Philippines islands by WWII
veteran E.H Smathers, Mounted for display by John M. Elkins.
Sixth graders visit Perrin AFB museum on November 10, 2006 as a Veteran's Day field trip. They are from Gunter Intermediate School at Gunter, Texas.
Back in the 1960's the then Major Bill Grusy commanded Perrin's 3560th Field Maintenance Squadron. All of his staff officers were Chief Warrant Officers including Farris. This was a first for the United States Air Force and made page one of the Air Force Times Magazine. CWO Farris was the Jet Engine branch chief at Perrin AFB for all of the jet aircraft on base.
A photo taken of the reunion of Lt Colonel Bill Grusy and Chief Warrant Officer James W. Farris on June 30, 2006 at the Perrin AFB Museum
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit to Perrin Air Force Base in 1963. Left to right: Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President. Colonel Raymond Gallagher, 4780th Air Defense Wing Commander, and David Williams, 4780th Wing Staff Officer. David Williams is a regular volunteer at the museum.
T37 loaded on Larry Jester Construction Company's 18-wheeler, ready to depart from Sheppard AFB, TX to Grayson County-Perrin Airport's Perrin AFB Museum. Jet was reassembled at Perrin on January 30, 2005. It will be on public display in the new addition soon to be built next to the current museum building around March 1st, 2005
Patches now available at the Museum
Perrin Air Force Base Commemorative Coin
Obverse Side
Reverse Side
Perrin Field 1941/Perrin Air Force Base 1971 - Commemorative Coins are available for sale.
The Perrin Air Force Base commemorative coins are near one ounce and made of .999 silver. Cost of the silver coin is $37.50. We also have the same coin struck in brass and sell for $20.00. There is a $5.00 shipping and handling cost added to coins when mailed. Proceeds from the sale of the coins return to the maintenance and operating cost of the museum. On the Perrin Field TX 1941 (Obverse side) is the bust of Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Daniel Perrin, the name sake of Perrin Air Force Base. Perrin Field opened in 1941. Colonel Perrin was the Army Air Corps flight test acceptance team commander at the Glenn Martin Aircraft Company. He was killed on April 21, 1941, during an acceptance flight in a B-26 Martin Medium Bomber in Maryland. The first aircraft assigned to Perrin Field were Consolidated Vultee Corporation built BT-13 “Vibrators.” Three are flying overhead. On the (Reverse side) Perrin Air Force Base 1971, is Colonel Vermont Garrison, triple war ACE in combat both in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. He was also a double jet ACE in Korea among the other 39 jet ACE’s in the Korean War. The three stars represent Colonel Garrison’s triple ACE air battle records. The three stars also represent Perrin’s three decades of being an active United States Air Force Base Installation. Convair (formerly Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation built F-102 Delta Daggers are flying overhead. They were the last aircraft assigned to Perrin when it closed in 1971. The coins are in a protective plastic case. Send a check or money order made out to: Perrin AFB Museum Fund, 436 McCullum Avenue, Denison, TX 75020. Coins will be mailed the same day that payment if received. They will be sent by insured mail. ARTIST FOR THE COINS: Both sides is John M. Elkins, Chief Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired) 4040 Luella Road, Sherman, Texas 75090-5270
Replica of Perrin Field Dedication Marker Installed
On Saturday, August 7, 2002, the long awaited replica of the original Perrin Field dedication marker was installed on the stone cairn east of the flag pole, Grayson County Airport (formerly Perrin Air Force Base, Denison-Sherman, Texas.) Thanks to the many donations from those Perrin Field people who continue to perpetuate Perrin Field’s legacy. Also thanks to the Perrin AFB Research Foundation, Perrin Historical Society, and Perrin Reunion Committee. Marker installed compliments of The Sign Machine Company of Denison, Texas. The original marker was stolen soon after and/or while the base was closing down in 1972. Shown below is what the replica looks like today and what the original marker looked like in 1942.
The Replica Marker rededicated on February 23, 2002 and installed August 7, 2002
The original Perrin Field Marker dedicated February 23, 1942
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