RapidFireWeb Colorado Springs, United States Air Force Academy, CO 80840-5151. Tel: 719-333-2025 (Visitor Center), or 333-4674 (Library Special Questions Desk) “In 1949 the Secretary of Defense, James Forestall, created a committee to recommend a general system of education for service officers. Within a year, this advisory group reported that only an air academy, separate from both … Read more
Convair B-36 Peacemaker (RCAF Photo via Chris Charland) Convair B-36H Peacemaker (Serial No. 52-1356), 11th Bombardment Wing, Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas, intercepted by a pair of CF-100 Mk. 5’s from No. 428 “Ghost” AW (F) Squadron. CF-100 Mk. 5 (Serial No. 18580), coded HG-580, RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario. (City of Ottawa Archives, Photo CA040731) Convair … Read more
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the USA. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are as credited. Any errors found here are by the author, … Read more
F-106 Delta Dart (USAF Photo) An F-106A Delta Dart aircraft passes over the Mojave Desert while en route to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., where it will be used in the QF-106 drone program. The aircraft, which was the second-to-last F-106 in active service, had been used as a safety chase aircraft in the B-1B aircraft … Read more
Colorado Springs, Edward J. Peterson Air & Space Museum, 150 East Ent Avenue, Peterson AFB, CO, 80914-1303. Telephone: 719-556-8278, FAX: 719-556-8509. The museum is located on Peterson Air Force Base (PAFB) in Building 981 at the intersection of Peterson and Ent Boulevards. Peterson Air Force Base is approximately seven miles east of Colorado Springs on … Read more
Denver, Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Hangar Number 1, Building 401, Lowry Campus, 7711 East Academy Blvd, Denver, Colorado, 80220. Tel: 303-360-5360; FAX: 303-5328. The museum is located at the site of the former Lowry AFB, 7711 East Academy Blvd, Denver, Colorado. During the Second World War a great number of aircrew … Read more
Consolidated PBY Catalinas The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the USA. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are as credited. Any errors found here are by the author, … Read more
Consolidated B-24 Liberator The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the USA. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are as credited. Any errors found here are by the author, … Read more
Colorado Springs, National Museum of World War II Aviation, Colorado Springs Airport. (NMofWWIIA Photo) Aero L-39 Albatross (Serial No.). Beechcraft Super 18 (Serial No. ). E-18S. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, or cargo aircraft (and also sold as a passenger airliner with tailwheels, nose wheels, skis, or floats,) it was also used as a … Read more
Windsor Locks, New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT 06096. The New England Air Museum is situated at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut midway between Hartford, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts. Take I-91 North or South to Exit 40 (Rte 20). Take the second right exit off Route 20 and turn … Read more
