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HAER No. CA-319: Beale AFB PAVE PAWS Written Report

The Historic American Engineering Record's 57-page written history of the Beale PAVE PAWS radar: siting, the $60 million Raytheon contract, 1977–79 construction, and two decades of operations, recorded by historian Karen J. Weitze from 1998 fieldwork and interviews.

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Provenance

Downloaded from the Library of Congress (tile.loc.gov storage services, item ca3254). Produced for the US Air Force Air Combat Command via the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District; photographs by Joseph Scott Murphey. A work of the US government, public domain. The companion survey of the radar building itself is HAER No. CA-319-A, also in this archive.

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Document Details
Document Type
Report
Creator
Karen J. Weitze / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service
Date
2002 (fieldwork 1998)
Classification
UNCLASSIFIED / PUBLIC
Document ID
HAER No. CA-319
Original Language
English
Last Modified
2026-07-09
Source
Historic American Buildings Survey — Beale Air Force Base