Warplanes of the USA: Florida, Historic Photos
Florida Warplanes
(Sgt. 1st Class Mark Bell, US Army Reserve Photo)
Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook helicopter assigned to the 1st Battalion, 111th Aviation Regiment, Florida Army National Guard from nearby Jacksonville, Florida, preparing to land on a remote landing zone at Camp Blanding, Florida, 8 Aug 2014, in support of the Army Reserve's 724th Military Police Battalion, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florda.
(US Army Reserve Photo)
Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter flown byh the Florida Army National Guard maneuvering near Army Reserve Military Police Soldiers during a training exercise held at Camp Blanding, Florida, on 8 Aug 2014.
(Florida ANG Photo)
North American F-51D Mustang fighters of the 159th Fighter Squadron, Florida Air National Guard, at Thomas Cole Imeson Airport, Jacksonville, Florida, ca 1947.
(USAF Photo)
North American F-51D Mustang, 159th Fighter Squadron, Florida Air National Guard, ca 1947.
(USAF Photo)
North American F-51H-10-A Mustang fighters of the 159th Fighter Squadron, Florida Air National Guard, ca 1947.
(USCG Photo)
U.S. Coast Guard General Aviation PJ-1 Arcturus (Serial No. CG-55), later (Serial No. V-115) in flight off Miami, Florida, on 6 Dec 1934. The aircraft was commissioned in Nov 1932. In 1934 it was stationed at Coast Guard Air Station Miami. Later, it was assigned to CGAS Salem, Massachusetts, before being transferred to CGAS St. Petersburg, Florida on 11 Dec 1938. It was decommissioned in August 1941.
(USAF Photo)
Convair F-102A-75-CO Delta Dagger fighters (56-1390, 561418) of the 159th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 125th Fighter Interceptor Wing, Florida Air National Guard, ca 1960s.
(USAF Photo)
Convair F-106 Delta Dart and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon with the 159th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 125th Fighter Interceptor Wing, Florida Air National Guard, 1987.
(USN Photo)
McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom II (BuNo. 155749) from Marine fighter-bomber squadron VMFA-235 Death Angels on the flightline at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Florida, in 1982.
(MSgt Michael Ammons, USAF Photo)
McDonnell F-4 Phantom II formation during a heritage flight demonstration over Florida in 1997 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Air Force.
(Master Sgt. Mary-Dale Amison, USAF Photo)
McDonnell Douglas QF-4E Phantom II target aircraft (Serial No. 74-1652), assigned to the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron, 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, 9 July 2005.
(Gerard van der Schaaf Photo)
McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle, 125th Fighter Wing, Florida Air National Guard, 2015.
(Master Sgt. Shaun Withers, USAF Photo)
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, 125th Fighter Wing, Florida Air National Guard, Tyndall Air Force Base, 2005. (Master Sgt. Shaun Withers, USAF Photo)
(Staff Sgt. Shelley Gill, USAF Photo)
Fairchild C-26B Metroliner, Florida Air National Guard, takes off from the Jacksonville Air National Guard Base, Jacksonville International Airport, Florida, 2005.
(Airman 1st Class Ali Flisek, USAF Photo)
6th Special Operations Squadron and their aircraft. The two closest are Bell UH-1N Iroquois helicopterss; the white aircraft on the left is a Douglas C-47T Turboprop conversion; the white plane on the right is an Antonov An-26 (a Ukrainian turboprop transport aircraft), and the helicopter in the back is a Russian Mi-8 Hip helicopter.
(USMC Photo)
Bell UH-1N Iroquois helicopter (BuNo. 158774), USMC, from Marine light helicopter squadron HML-770 sitting on the flight line at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Florida in 1982.
(Hamstd Photo)
Grumman E-2C Hawkeye with eight-bladed Hamilton Sundstrand NP2000 propellers, NAS Jacksonville, 28 Oct 2006.
(MSgt Donald Allen, USAF Photo)
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighters assigned to Naval Air Station Pensacola, over the northwest coast of Florida, 15 May 2013.
(Alan Wilson Photo)
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (Serial No. 05-106), c/n 4106, TY, flown by the 95th Fighter Squadron, part of the 325th Fighter Wing based at Tyndall AFB, Florida, 22 April 2016.
Florida Warbird Survivors 2002 is designed to provide aviation enthusiasts with a simple checklist on where to find the surviving retired military aircraft that are preserved in the state of Florida. The museum staffs and volunteer organizations in Florida have done a particularly good job of preserving the great variety of American combat veteran aircraft illustrated here. Hopefully, as more aircraft are recovered from their crash sites in the bush and restored, traded
or brought back from private owners, that they too will be added to the record. The book lists the aircraft alphabetically by manufacturer, number and type. This list is also appended with a brief summary of the aircraft presently on display within the state and a bit of its history in the US military.
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Florida Warbird Survivors 2002 has been updated:
Florida Warplanes
This aviation handbook is designed to be used as a quick guidebook to the military heritage aircraft that have been restored and preserved in the state of Florida. The combat aircraft described here include those flown by members of the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, the Air and Army National Guard, and by various NATO and allied nations as well as a number previously operated by opposition forces in peace and war.
The interested reader will find useful information and a few technical details on most of the military aircraft that have been in service with active flying squadrons both at home and overseas. 160 selected photographs have been included to illustrate a few of the major examples in addition to the serial numbers assigned to the American military aircraft listed here. For those who like to actually see the aircraft concerned, aviation museum locations, addresses and contact phone numbers have been included, along with a list of aircraft held in each museum's current inventory or on display as gate guardians throughout the State of Florida. The aircraft presented in this edition are listed alphabetically by manufacturer, number and type.
Although many of Florida's heritage warplanes have completely disappeared, a few have been carefully collected, restored and preserved, and some have even been restored to flying condition. This guide-book should help you to find and view Florida's Warplane survivors.
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