RapidFireWeb McDonnell FH Phantom (USN Photo) USN McDonnell FH-1 Phantom (BuNo. 111793) in flight, 17 Feb 1948. 111793 is today on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida. The McDonnell FH Phantom is a twinjet, straight-wing, carrier-based fighter aircraft designed and first flown late in the Second World War for the US Navy. … Read more
(Acroterion Photo) Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, Naval Air Test Center, Lexington Park, 20670-0407. The Museum is immediately outside, and adjacent to, Patuxent River Naval Air Station/Trapnell Field Gate 1, at the intersection of State Route 235 and Pegg Road. The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum is a museum at Lexington Park, Maryland, first opened … Read more
Owls Head Transportation Museum Knox County Airport, Route 73, PO Box 277, Owls Head, ME 04854. Phone: (207) 594-4418, (207) 594-4418, Fax: (207) 594-4410. The Owls Head Transportation Museum has one of the finest collections of pioneer-era aircraft and automobiles in the world. More than 100 historic aircraft, automobiles, bicycles, carriages and engines are on … Read more
Warplanes preserved in New Orleans, Jackson Barracks Military Museum, 6400 St. Claude Ave., 70146-0330. (Author Photos) Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan (Serial No. 44-0951). (Author Photos) Bell UH-1D Iroquois Helicopter (Serial No. 65-9911). (Author Photos) Convair YF-102 Delta Dagger (Serial No. 53-1787), C/N 62334. (Author Photos) Douglas A-26C Invader (Serial No. 44-35937), L. This A-26C-50-DT (converted to … Read more
Warplanes preserved in Maine Auburn, Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport Lockheed L-1649A-98 Starliner (Serial No. 1018), Reg. No. N7316C, being restored at LEW for Lufthansa, with first post restoration flight planned for late 2011. Registered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Lockheed L-1649A-98 Starliner (Serial No. 1038), Reg. No. N8083H, also being restored at LEW, with first flight … Read more
Martin AM-1 Mauler (USN Photo) The Martin AM Mauler (originally XBTM) was a single-seat carrier-based attack aircraft built for the United States Navy. Designed during the Second World War, the Mauler encountered development delays and did not enter service until 1948 in small numbers. The aircraft proved troublesome and remained in frontline service only until 1950, … Read more
Maine Warplanes (USGOV-PD Photo) Republic F-47N-25-RE Thunderbolt (Serial No. 48-9416), coded FE-416, 37th Fighter Squadron, Dow AFB, Maine, 1948. (USAF Photo) North American F-51H-5-NA Mustang (Serial No. 44-64368), 132nd Fighter Squadron, Maine Air National Guard, c1948. (USN Photo) Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft in Hangar 3 at Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine, in 1944. … Read more
Warplanes preserved in New Orleans, in the National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine Street, 70130. (Author Photos) Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress (Serial No. 41-9032). Built at Boeing Seattle as B-17E. Assigned to 342nd Bomb Squadron and named “My Gal Sal.” During a ferry flight on 27 June 1942, crash landed in Greenland. All crew … Read more
LTV A-7 Corsair II (USAF Photo) LTV A-7 Corsair II (Serial No. 70-0955) of the 76th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 23rd Tactical Fighter Wing, airdropping Mark 82 hi-drag bombs over the Eglin Air Force Base range, Florida, 1 May 1980. The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured byLing-Temco-Vought … Read more
Warplanes preserved in Bossier City, Barksdale AFB, 8th Air Force Museum/Global Power Museum, 88 Shreveport Road, 71110. (Michael Barera Photos) (Martin McGuire Photo) Avro 698 Vulcan B Mk. 2 (Serial No. XM606). (Michael Barera Photo) (Martin McGuire Photo) Beechcraft UC-45J Expeditor (BuNo. 39266), C/N 4785, painted as (Serial No. 447266), Reg. No. N40081. (Michael Barera … Read more
