- Views: 1410
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 19, 2013
Port side nose art of 'Strawberry Bitch' on display in the WWII Gallery at the National Museum of the USAF. This B-24 saw action over North Africa in 1943-1944 with the 512th Bomb Squadron.
- Air Force: USA - Army Air Force
- Aircraft: Douglas A-20G Havoc
- Registration: 43-22200 / 43-21475 / T (cn 21847)
- Views: 1280
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 19, 2013
This A-20 is in reality 43-22200 but is painted to represent 'Little Joe', a A-20 of the 5th AF, 312 BG/319th BS that flew 120 combat missions.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing EC-135E Stratolifter (717-157)
- Registration: 60-0374 (cn 18149)
- Views: 1338
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio October 3, 2005
Closeup of the droop snout on this advanced range instrumentation aircraft (ARIA).Inside the nose is a seven foot antenna dish.
- Views: 1572
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 19, 2013
'Bockscar' dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki on 9th Aug. 1945, three days after the atomic attack against Hiroshima. This B-29 is now on display at the National Museum of the USAF.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing RB-47H Stratojet
- Registration: 53-4299 (cn 4501323)
- Views: 1443
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio July 17, 2005
USAF Museum
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Convair B-58A Hustler
- Registration: 59-2458 (cn 61)
- Views: 1560
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio October 3, 2005
Supersonic bomber,USAF Museum
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing EC-135E Stratolifter (717-157)
- Registration: 60-0374 (cn 18149)
- Views: 1641
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 18, 2013
This Advanced Range Instrument Aircraft (ARIA)'The Bird of Prey' arrived at the National Museum of the USAF in Nov. 2000 after a 32-year service life.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (299P)
- Registration: 42-32076 (cn 7190)
- Views: 1258
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 19, 2013
'Shoo Shoo' Baby' is a veteran of 24 combat missions in WWII and is now on display at the National Museum of the USAF.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas RF-4E Phantom II
- Registration: 64-1047 / BH (cn 927) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1477
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 17, 2013
This venerable F-4 has earned it's retirement on display at the National Museum of the USAF.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Avro VZ-9 Avro Car
- Registration: 58-7055 (cn AV-7055)
- Views: 1715
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio May 30, 2009
US Air Force awards a contract to Avro Canada to build the Avrocar in the late 1950s.Proved very unstable in forward flight.Two built.USAF Museum
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: General Dynamics F-111F Aardvark
- Registration: 70-2390 / LN (cn E2-29) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1236
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 17, 2013
'Miss Liberty II' is on display at the super National Museum of the USAF.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Lockheed C-141B Starlifter (L-300)
- Registration: 66-0177 (cn 300-6203) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1676
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 19, 2013
Special crest to mark the fact that this is the famous 'Hanoi Taxi', the C-141 that brought the first POWs home from North Vietnam during Operation Homecoming. This was also the last Starlifter to be retired from USAF service in 2006.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Fairchild C-123K Provider
- Registration: 56-4362 (cn 20246)
- Views: 1376
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 18, 2013
This ex-Ranch Hand, Vietnam combat veteran is now on display at the National Museum of the USAF. She acquired the nickname 'Patches' as a result of sustaining innumerable bullet holes and hits that then required to be patched up.
- Views: 1496
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 18, 2013
This is from the 'other' Memphis Belle at the National Museum of the USAF, specifically Memphis Belle II.
- Views: 1193
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio July, 1985
A majestic giant sits in the sun at the USAF museum, preserved after doing a lot of heavy lifting. It carries the markings of the 436 Military Airlift Wing (MAW) on its closed nose wheel doors.
- Views: 1628
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 29, 2012
prototype YF-117A now preserved at the National Museum of the USAF
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Martin Marietta X-24A
- Registration: 66-13551
- Views: 1575
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio December 2, 2005
The X-24 was one of a group of lifting bodies flown by the NASA Flight Research Center. Only 1 X-24A was built which was later converted to the X-24B variant. A Martin SV-5J was later modified to resemble the original X-24A, which is now on display here.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Convair F-102A Delta Dagger (8-10)
- Registration: 56-1416 (cn 8-10-363) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1950
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio December 2, 2005
An F-102A Delta Dagger right next to his younger brother, the F-106A Delta Dart. They are both on display at the National Museum of the USAF.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Martin EB-57D Canberra
- Registration: 53-3982 (cn 14622/006)
- Views: 1344
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio December 2, 2005
A Martin EB-57D on display at the National Museum of the USAF.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Northrop F-89J Scorpion
- Registration: 52-1911 / FV-509
- Views: 1629
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio December 2, 2005
Although painted as "53-2509", this Scorpion is actually the "52-1911". It is on display at the National Museum of the USAF.
- Air Force: USA - Army Air Force
- Aircraft: North American A-36A Apache
- Registration: 42-83665 / BE (cn 97-15883)
- Views: 1501
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio December 2, 2005
The A-36 Apache is the ground-attack/dive bomber version of the P-51 Mustang. It can be distinguished by the presence of rectangular, slatted dive brakes above and below the wings.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing EC-135E Stratolifter (717-157)
- Registration: 60-0374 (cn 18149)
- Views: 1572
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio October 3, 2005
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Sikorsky MH-53M Pave Low IV (S-65)
- Registration: 68-10357 (cn 65-163)
- Views: 2117
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio August 29, 2008
On display at the National Museum of the USAF.
- Air Force: USA - NASA
- Aircraft: LTV Aerospace XC-142A
- Registration: 522 (cn 4)
- Views: 1844
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio February 6, 1987
Are those props or rotors? The Vought/Hiller/Ryan XC-142A VTOL 'tilt-wing' test vehicle NASA 522 / 62-5924 which used to be on display outside at the US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, photo taken 6th February 1987.