I'm looking for old sectionals of Eastern LI. I was out hiking in the woods today and came across an old building, which to me looked like an old VOR. I did some digging when I got home, and it turns out that it might be the old Riverhead RVH VORTAC, but there's not much online about it. The only pictoral I've got is this:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...GGiiwhxXHhHa0Q

There a figure (Figure 9(b)) that shows oceanic routes into JFK that references RVH. It's placement looks to be very similar to where CCC currently is, and I can't seem to dig up any info about when CCC was put into service, or if it was simply changed from RVH to CCC at some point.

Assuming that the figure in the google doc is shown to scale (and some basic pen-on-paper-on-computer screen-to-measure-distance trickery), RVH is shown to be slightly closer to DPK than HTO. Looking at current charts, CCC is shown to be closer to HTO than DPK by 2 miles (24 to DPK and 22 to HTO).

So, if the figure is actually to scale, that would seem to prove that they were two separate facilities and that what I found in the woods is indeed the old RVH VORTAC.

Basically I'm just looking for scans of old charts that would show the location of RVH so I can compare it to the location I was at today. If anyone's got any, it would be great! Coordinates would be even better!

There were some references in Google Earth about it, but for some reason I can't view the forum thread about it. Here are the coordinates for anyone who's interested: 40° 53.734'N 72° 54.738'W

 

Ok, so I'm updating this for no other reason than for closure. 12 years later I stumbled upon what I was looking for. A section of sectional from 1965.



Turns out I was on the right track. RVH was what came across in the woods. Here's some other pics for good measure:

 

Thanks for sharing! Very cool find.

 

I’ve been waiting forever for you to get back to us 😂. Interesting find