We owned a cabin on Champlain, the F-111s flew so low we could tickle their bellies as they flew over it. It was a SAC base but also home to a F-111 Unit. We shopped on base after I retired up there. By 2003 it was empty.
My high school friend says that the FB-111’s weren’t there when he was, he left in 1970. But the word was that they were coming..
He reminded me that the base up there has been closed for years to which I reminded him I live 10 air miles from and am in the landing pattern for Stewart which, like Plattsburg is now a commercial airport. They used to have C-5A’s at Stewart but they’re gone now. The Air Guard unit there has C-130s. Big difference..