RapidFireWeb Warplanes preserved in North Dakota Bismark, Municipal Airport. (Robert Dilley Photos) Bell UH-1V Iroquois helicopter (Serial No. 70-16440), medevac, mounted on a pylon. US Army Aviation Facility Complex, North Dakota National Guard. Casselton, Aero Replicas, Caselton Regional Airport, 58012. Messerschmitt Bf 109, replica. McDonnell F-4C Phantom (Serial No. 63-7417). Pitts S-1-C. Devil’s Lake (Safn Photo) … Read more
North Dakota Warplanes (USAF Photo)North American F-51D-30-NA Mustang fighter (Serial No. 44-74938) from the 178th Fighter Squadron, 119th Fighter Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, ca. 1954. (USAF Photo) North American F-51D-30-NA Mustangs, 178th Fighter Squadron, 119th Fighter Wing “The Happy Hooligans“, North Dakota Air National Guard, at Hector Field, North Dakota, June 1950. (USAF … Read more
Northrop X-4 Bantam (USAF Photo) The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a prototype small twinjet aircraft manufactured by Northrop Corporation in 1948. It had no horizontal tail surfaces, depending instead on combined elevator and aileron control surfaces (called elevons) for control in pitch and roll attitudes, almost exactly in the manner of the similar-format, rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me … Read more
North American P-51H, P-51K, F-6D, F-6K, and Cavalier Mustangs There are more than 20 different variants of the North American P-51 Mustang. Private owners have modified many of these aircraft to perform as air racers, and others have been restored or modified to conform to specific configurations for performance purposes. Mustang variants: P-51 Mustang XP-51/P-51 … Read more
North Carolina Warplanes (USCG Photo) Curtiss HS-2L being launched from the seaplane ramp at Coast Guard Air Station Morehead City, North Carolina, ca 1926. (USAAF Photo) Republic P-47N Thunderbolt (Serial No. 44-33311), North Carolina Air National Guard, ca 1948. (USN Photo) Douglas F4D-1 Skyray, Marine All-Weather Fighter Squadron VMF(AW)-115 “Able Eagles” undergiong maintenance at Marine … Read more
Northrop YB-35 (USAF Photo) Northrop YB-35 (Serial No. 42-38323), c1947. The Northrop YB-35/XB-35, Northrop designation N-9 or NS-9,[2] were experimental heavy bomber aircraft developed by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Army Air Forces during and shortly after the Second World War. The airplane used the radical and potentially very efficient flying wing design, in … Read more
Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 Black Widow (NASA/DFRC Photo) The two YF-23 prototype aircraft fly over the Mojave Desert prior to arrival at NASA’s Dryden Flight Center, Edwards, California, 1994. The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The design team, with Northrop … Read more
Northrop YB-49 (USAF Photo) The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered heavy bomber developed by Northrop Corporation shortly after the Second World War for service with the United States Air Force. The YB-49 featured a flying wing design and was a turbojet-powered development of the earlier, piston-engined Northrop XB-35 and YB-35. The two YB-49s built … Read more
Northrop F-89 Scorpion (USAF Photo) U.S. Air Force Northrop F-89D-45-NO Scorpion interceptors of the 59th Fighter Interceptor Squadrons, Goose Bay AB, Labrador (Canada), in the 1950s. 52-1959 in foreground, now in storage at Edwards AFB, California. 1950. The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is an all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop … Read more
Ohio Warplanes (Master Sgt. Rob Wieland, USAF Photo) General Dynamics F-16C Block 42F/G Fighting Falcons (Serial Nos. 89-2098 and 89-2112), 112th Fighter Squadron “Stingers”, 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard during “Exercise Northern Edge ’06”, over Alaska on 14 June 2006. (USAF Photo) North American F-51D-25-NA Mustang (Serial No. 44-73348), 162nd Fighter Squadron, Ohio … Read more
