Warplanes of the USA: Minnesota, Historic Photos

Minnesota Warplanes

(NMNA Photo)

Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver (BuNo. 1831) assigned to to Naval Air Reserve Air Base Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1 Jan 1940.  Reserve Scouting Squadron Ten (VS-10R) and Marine Reserve Scouting Squadron Six (VMS-6R) operated SBC-4s at the base. Note the Naval Air Reserve insignia on the aircraft's cowling. The SBC-4 (BuNo. 0571) ended its life as a ground instructional airframe at Chicago, Illinois, and was scrapped on 25 October 1943.

(USAF Photo)

North American F-51D-20-NA Mustang (Serial No. 44-6388-), 179th Fighter Squadron, 133rd Fighter Group, Minnesota Air National Guard, ca 1949.  The Minnesota ANG flew the F-51 from 1948 to 1954.

(USAF Photo)

North American F-51D-20-NA Mustang (Serial No. 44-6388-), 179th Fighter Squadron, 133rd Fighter Group, Minnesota Air National Guard, ca 1948.

(USGOV-PD Photo)

North American F-51K-10-NT Mustang (Serial No. 44-11992), 109th Fighter Squadron, Minnesota Air National Guard, 1948.

(USAF Photo)

Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire (Serial No. 50-0980), 109th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Minnesota Air National Guard, 1957.

(USAF Photo)

Northrop F-89H-5-NO Scorpion (Serial No. 54-0409), 432nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, stationed at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota in 1957.   This aircraft, armed with a "Genie" nuclear missile, fired the nuclear weapon as the "John Shot" of Operation Plumb Bob, at Indian Springs Auxillary Airfield, Nevada on 19 July 1959.

(USGOV-PD Photo)

Boeing C-97A Stratofreighter (Serial No. 49-2607), 109th Air Transport Squadron, Minnesota Air National Guard, 1959.

(RuthAS Photo)

Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter (Serial No. 53-0349) of the Minnesota Air National Guard, retired in 1964.

(USAF Photo)

Convair F-102A-75-CO Delta Dagger (Serial No. 56-1323), 179th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 148th Fighter Interceptor Group, Minnesota Air National Guard, ca 1970.

(CMSgt. Don Suterhland, USAF Photo)

McDonnell F-4D-26-MC Phantom II (Serial No. 65-0585),  179th Fighter Squadron, 148th Fighter Group, Minnesota Air National Guard, 1987.  The F-4D is fully armed with AIM-9J Sidewinder and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles and a SUU-21 20 mm gatling gun pod on the centerline station.

(USGOV-PD Photo)

McDonnell F-4D-26-MC Phantom II, 179th Fighter Squadron, 148th Fighter Group, Minnesota Air National Guard, 1983.

(USGOV-PD Photo)

McDonnell F-4D-26-MC Phantom II (Serial No. 65-0608), 179th Fighter Squadron, 148th Fighter Group, Minnesota Air National Guard, Duluth Air National Guard Base, Minnesota, 1988.

(MSgt. Dean V. Kuhlman, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16A Block 15J Fighting Falcon (Serial No.  82-0901), 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, escorts home the first Minnesota ANG F-16C Block 25B (Serial No.  83-1162),to Duluth, Minnesota, 14 December 2002.

(Tech. Sgt. Brett R. Ewald, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16CJ Block 50 Fighting Falcon (Serial No. 91-0388) from the 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, after arriving at the 148th Fighter Wing Air National Guard Base, Duluth, Minnesota (USA) on 27 April 2010. This aircraft was one of the first Block 50 F-16s to arrive at the wing as the unit became the first Air National Guard unit to convert to the Block 50 aircraft from active duty units.

(Tech. Sgt. Brett R. Ewald, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16CJ Block 50 Fighting Falcons, 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, Duluth, Minnesota.

(Staff Sgt. Jeremy Wilson, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16C Block 50D Fighting Falcons (Serial Nos. 91-0414 and 91-0420), 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, 2012.

(Tech. Sgt. Stephen Hudson, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon (Serial No. 96-0082), 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, 2012.

(Senior Airman Ashley Nicole Taylor, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon (Serial No. 96-0831), 179th Fighter Squadron, Minnesota Air National Guard, Duluth, 2015.

(Tech Sgt Erik Gudmundson, USAF Photo)

Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules (Serial No. 95-1006), 109th Airlift Squadron, 133rd Airlift Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, 2006.

(USAF Photo)

Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules (Serial No. 95-1001), 109th Airlift Squadron, 133rd Airlift Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, 2010.

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