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Air Traffic Communications Station, not FSS. ;-)


Air Traffic Communications Stations only for a brief time. These facilities
were named Airway Radio Stations when the Department of Commerce assumed
responsibility for the transcontinental airway from the Post Office in 1927.
They were renamed Airway Communications Stations in 1938 and later
Interstate Airway Communications Stations. They became Air Traffic
Communications Stations after the FAA was created in August 1958 and were
renamed Flight Service Stations in March 1960.