RapidFireWeb Nellis Air Force Base Nellis AFB is located 8 miles northeast of Las Vegas. It is Headquarters, Air Warfare Center, and home to 57th Wing; Air Demonstration Squadron (Thunderbirds); Air Force Weapons School; and 66th Rescue Squadron. It also houses the Threat Training Facility. Nellis AFB is named for 1st Lieutenant William H. Nellis, a … Read more
Fallon Naval Air Station, Van Voorhis Field, 4755 Pasture Road, Fallon, NV 89496-5000. Fallon NAS is located 60 miles southeast of Reno, and is home to Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center; Fighter Squadron Composite 13; Strike Fighter Wing Pacific Detachment Fallon; and Construction Battalion Unit 416. The airfield at Fallon was named for Lt. … Read more
New Hampshire Warplanes (USAF Photo) Republic F-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt 44-89766. First aircraft of the 133d Fighter Squadron, New Hampshire Air National Guard, 1947. (USAF Photo) North American F-51H-5-NA Mustang (Serial No. 44-64356), 133rd Fighter Squadron, New Hampshire Air National Guard, ca 1952. (Paul S. Trask Photo) North American F-51H-5-NA Mustang (Serial No. 44-64377), 133rd Fighter Squadron, … Read more
Warplanes preserved in Nebraska Aurora (Otto Dickey Photo) (Allen Jones Photos) North American F-100A Super Sabre (Serial No. 63825), mounted on cement pylons at Aurora Airport. This aircraft is painted in Thunderbird colours. Beatrice (Ted Quackenbush Photo) Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (Serial No. 51-8880), C/N 580-6664. This aircraft is mounted on a pedestal at Beatrice … Read more
Nevada Warplanes (Senior Airman Betty R. Chevalier, USAF Photo) Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 66th Rescue Squadron is stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, refuels from a Lockheed MC-130P Combat Shadow from the 130th Rescue Squadron, stationed at Moffett Federal Airfield, California on 11 June 2015. (USAF Photo) North American F-51D Mustang … Read more
Montana Warplanes (TSgt. Fernando Serna, USAF Photo) General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon (Serial No. 81-0772) from the 186th Fighter Squadron, Montana Air National Guard, escorts a Soviet Su-27 Flanker aircraft to the Canadian border after an air show, 1990. (USAF Photo) North American F-51D Mustang (Serial No. 44-73526), Montana Air National Guard, ca 1947. (USAF … Read more
Warplanes preserved in New Hampshire Concord (New Hampshire ANG Photo) Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Serial No.), New Hampshire Army National Guard Aviation Support Facility, Medevac version mounted on a pylon. Concord (Tom Tessier Photo) Vought XF8U-2 (XF-88B) Crusader (BuNo. 140448), McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. Concord (NASA Photo) Christa McAuliffe, a schoolteacher from Concord, was to have been the first … Read more
New Jersey Warplanes (US National Archives and Records Administration Photo) HS-2L flying boat on the dock at Bayonne, New Jersey. This aircraft was manufactured at the Standard Aircraft Corporation Plant, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1916. (US National Archives and Records Administration Photo) Model D twin-motored hydroplane manufactured at the Standard Aircraft Corporation Plant, Elizabeth, New Jersey, … Read more
Warplanes preserved in Montana Bozeman, 600 West Kagy Boulevard, 59717. Pietenpohl B4-A Aircamper, Reg. No. NC12752. Butte (Trisepia Photos) North American F-86L Sabre Dog (Serial No. 53-0997), C/N 201-441, mounted on three concrete pylons. Dutton, American Legion Freeborn Post 64, 122 1st Ave, 59433. (BruceS Photos) Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (Serial No. 57-1332), mounted on a … Read more
Warplanes preserved in Mississippi Bay St. Louis, John C. Stennis Space Center, Hancock County Welcome Center, 39529. Gates Lear Jet 23, Reg. No. N566NA. Jupiter C-2 Rocket. LTV A-7B Corsair II (BuNo. 154474), 101. Lunar Lander. Mercury Redstone Rocket. Saturn V Moon Rocket. Biloxi, Keesler AFB, 39534-5000. (Adrian Brooks Photo) Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (Serial … Read more
