- Views: 1252
- Location: Atwater (Merced) - Castle (AFB) (MER / KMER) , USA - California July 30, 2013
This C-123 was TOC around 1955 and served until 1980 when it was retired to MASDC as CP051. The plane was saved from the boneyard when it became part of the NMUSAF Loan Program and is now on display as 'Hog Hauler'at the super Castle Air Museum.
- Air Force: Private - Alien Invaders LLC
- Aircraft: Douglas A-26C Invader
- Registration: N7079G (cn 28841)
- Views: 1738
- Location: Seattle - Boeing Field / King County Int. (BFI / KBFI) , USA - Washington August 5, 2011
This A-26 was built at Tulsa in 1944 and delivered to the USAAF as 44-35562. Post-war it was converted by On Mark into a demilitarised, executive transport Marketeer, acquiring this 'Sexy Sue' noseart along the way.
- Air Force: Private - Tennessee Museum of Aviation
- Aircraft: Douglas A-1H Skyraider (AD-6)
- Registration: NX665TC / TC (cn 10897)
- Views: 1285
- Location: Sevierville / Gatlinburg - Pigeon Forge (GKT/KGKT) , USA - Tennessee November 5, 2015
Originally delivered to the USN as 139665 but then passed on to the SVNAF. Shortly before the fall of Saigon 'Lieutenant America' was flown to U Taphao AB, Thailand and then abandoned. In 1979 it was transported to the US and restoration begun in 2008.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
- Registration: NX647D / 44-90438 (cn 8955583)
- Views: 1059
- Location: Sevierville / Gatlinburg - Pigeon Forge (GKT/KGKT) , USA - Tennessee November 5, 2015
'Wicked Wabbit' was in on display at the super Tennessee Museum of Aviation.
- Views: 1417
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio November 13, 2015
'Boss Hawg' served previously with the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess and is a Operation Desert Fox combat veteran but was retired to the National Museum of the USAF during Sept. 2002.
- Air Force: USA - Army Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (299P)
- Registration: 44-83624 / VE (cn 32265)
- Views: 1185
- Location: Dover - Dover AFB (DOV / KDOV) , USA - Delaware April 15, 2015
This B-17 was produced too late to see combat in WWII, instead flew first in a secret project that tested the idea of using obsolete aircraft as radio-controlled flying bombs and/or as drone-control aircraft. Now on display at the AMC Museum as 42-107112.
- Air Force: Private - Military Aviation Preservation Society
- Aircraft: Douglas C-47B Skytrain
- Registration: N54599 / 45-0928 / D8-Z (cn 16931/34189)
- Views: 1285
- Location: North Canton - MAPS Air Museum , USA - Ohio November 12, 2015
This C-47 was TOC by the USAAF in 1945 as 45-0928 and went post-war to the Royal Moroccan Air Force with serial 05928 and subsequently CN-ALE. The frame has been restored by the super MAPS Air Museum and is now on static display.
- Air Force: UK - Air Force
- Aircraft: Panavia Tornado GR1
- Registration: ZD374 / CN (cn 178/BS056/3088) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1545
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio November 13, 2015
This Tonka is on display in a 617 Sqdn desert camoflage scheme at the National Museum of the USAF. It arrived at the museum after being donated by the RAF in October 2002.
- Air Force: Private - Military Aviation Preservation Society
- Aircraft: Martin B-26 Marauder
- Registration: N4299K / 40-1459
- Views: 1228
- Location: North Canton - MAPS Air Museum , USA - Ohio November 14, 2015
This B-26 was delivered to the USAAF as 40-1459 before being grounded after a forced landing at Smith River, BC in 1942. It is now undergoing restoration as 'Charleys Jewel' at the super MAPS Air Museum at CAK.
- Air Force: Private - Military Aviation Preservation Society
- Aircraft: Grumman US-2A Tracker (G-89/S2F-1U)
- Registration: N4225F / 136464 (cn 373)
- Views: 1242
- Location: North Canton - MAPS Air Museum , USA - Ohio November 12, 2015
This ex-US Navy Tracker 136464 is on display at the super MAPS Air Msuem.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Lockheed AC-130A Spectre (L-182)
- Registration: 54-1630 (cn 182-3017)
- Views: 1229
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio November 13, 2015
This aircraft was delivered to the USAF during 1957 as a 'normal' C-130A but converted to a Spectre gunship during 1968. She saw action in Vietnam, Haiti and Iraq before being retired to the National Museum of the USAF in 1995.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing B-29A Superfortress
- Registration: 44-62139 (cn 11616)
- Views: 1388
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio November 13, 2015
This fuselage is displayed as a walk-through exhibit at the NMUSAF and is marked as 44-87657 'Command Decision', the only Bomber ace having sot down five MiGs during the Korean War.
- Views: 1689
- Location: Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB (Wright AFB) (DWF) , USA - Ohio November 13, 2015
In reality this F-86D is 50-477 but is on display at the NMUSAF as 'Dennis the Menace', a Sabre Dog assigned to the 97th Fighter Interceptor Squadron based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH during the mid-1950s.
- Air Force: USA - Army
- Aircraft: Bell UH-1H Iroquois (205)
- Registration: 68-15598 (cn 11886) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1466
- Location: Off-Airport - Zion (Russell Military Museum) , USA - Illinois November 18, 2015
'The Luck is Back' is one of many Hueys to be seen at the super Russell Military Museum.
- Air Force: Czechoslovakia - Air Force
- Aircraft: Ilyushin IL-14P
- Registration: 0507 (cn 4240507)
- Views: 1156
- Location: Off-Airport - Zruc , Czech Republic September 11, 2015
Starboard side nose art. There is a polar bear insignia on the port side.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Fairchild A-10C Thunderbolt II
- Registration: 79-0090 / BD (cn A10-0354) Aircraft Info
- Views: 1718
- Location: Midland (/ Odessa) - Int. (Regional) (MAF / KMAF) , USA - Texas October 8, 2011
This 47th FS Dogpatchers Warthog 'Tigress' had made the flight over from Barksdale to take part in the static display for Airsho 2011.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing WB-50D Superfortress
- Registration: 49-0351 (cn 13127)
- Views: 1285
- Location: Atwater (Merced) - Castle (AFB) (MER / KMER) , USA - California July 30, 2013
'Flight of the Phoenix' is on display as part of the super Castle Air Museum.
- Air Force: UK - Air Force
- Aircraft: Handley Page Victor K2 (HP-80)
- Registration: XM715 (cn HP80/83)
- Views: 1320
- Location: Bruntingthorpe , UK - England October 26, 2014
The starboard side of 'Teasin Tina' carries this 'Meldrew' noseart. Taken from, appropriately enough, Victor Meldrew, the well-loved grumpy old man of British TV.
- Air Force: USA - Air Force
- Aircraft: Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker (717-100)
- Registration: 56-3612 (cn 17361/51)
- Views: 1361
- Location: Tucson - Davis-Monthan AFB (DMA / KDMA) , USA - Arizona October 11, 2011
This 'E' served previously with the 171st ARW at Pittsburgh airport before being retired to AMARG in May 2004 with PCN/Inventory No. AACA0139. 'Pittsburgh Panther Pride' nose art.
- Views: 1491
- Location: East Fortune , UK - Scotland November 8, 2014
This Gulf War veteran is on display, with 'Katrina Jane' nose art, in Hangar One at the super National Museum of Flight, East Fortune.
- Air Force: Private - Commemorative Air Force
- Aircraft: Lockheed C-60A Lodestar
- Registration: N60JT (cn 18-2478)
- Views: 1931
- Location: Houston - Ellington Field (AFB) (EFD) , USA - Texas October 15, 2011
'Goodtime Gal' was previously 42-56005 with the USAAF and was on display as part of the CAF in the static at Wings over Houston 2011.
- Air Force: Private - Mid Atlantic Air Museum Inc.
- Aircraft: Douglas R4D-6
- Registration: N229GB / 50819 (cn 26874)
- Views: 1070
- Location: Reading - Regional / Carl A Spaatz Field (Municipal) (RDG / KRDG) , USA - Pennsylvania April 13, 2015
This C-47 was TOC by the USAAF in Nov. 1944 as 43-49613 but by Dec. had been transferred to the Navy as 50819 and redesignated as R4D-6. She served until 1959 and has been with the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum since 1981.
- Air Force: Private - Commemorative Air Force
- Aircraft: Consolidated B-24 (RLB-30) Liberator I
- Registration: N24927 / 40-2366 / 27 (cn 18)
- Views: 1381
- Location: Midland (/ Odessa) - Int. (Regional) (MAF / KMAF) , USA - Texas October 8, 2011
This B-24 was in markings of the 98th BG of the 9th AF in North Africa and named 'Diamond Lil'. Work began in 2006 to restore her to her original 1941 B-24A bomber configuration, paint scheme and new 'Ol' 927' nose art. 'Now Diamond Lil' is back again!
- Air Force: USA - Army Air Force
- Aircraft: Martin B-26B Marauder
- Registration: 41-31773
- Views: 1753
- Location: Washington - Dulles Int. (IAD / KIAD) , USA - Virginia April 7, 2015
'Flak Bait' survived over 200 operational missions over Europe, more than any other American aircraft during WWII, accumulating over 1,000 patched holes from combat damage. Now undergoing restoration at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.