Warplanes of the USA: New Jersey, Historic Photos

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, 3 July 1918.

(USN Photo)

Curtiss NC-7 flying boat, USN, along the shore of Sandy Hook, New Jersey.  This aircraft was one of ten NC flying boats built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and the Naval Aircraft Factory, ca 1920s.

(Smithsonian Institution Photos)

JR-1B mail airplane designed by the Standard Aircraft Corporation.  In 1918 the Standard Aircraft Corporation of Plainfield, New Jersey, redesigned six of their 1918 E-4 airplane airmail planes, fitting them with 150-horsepower Hispano-Suiza engines and longer top wings.  The redesigned aircraft were purchased by the Post Office Department for use as mail airplanes. Airmail pilot Max Miller painted a U.S. mailbag on the side of this airplane, numbered 1.

(Smithsonian Institution Photo)

de Havilland mailplane having mail loaded by Postal employees at Hadley Field in New Brunswick, New Jersey, ca 1920s.

New Jersey Aviation History

(USN Photo)

The U.S. Navy airship USS Macon (ZRS-5) conducts initial operations with her Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" aircraft, over New Egypt, New Jersey (USA), on 7 July 1933.  The two planes, visible below the airship, were piloted by Lieutenant D. Ward Harrigan and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Frederick N. Kivette.

(Wide World Photos/Minneapolis Sunday Tribune Photo)

German airship "Hindenburg" being moored at Lakehurst, NJ after its first transatlantic crossing to the US. The Olympic rings logo can be seen on the side of the airship, 9 May 1936.

(US National Archives and Records Administration Photo)

German airship "Hindenburg" at Lakehurst, 25 Jan 1937.

(Nationaal Archief/Spaarnestad Photo Nederlands Photo)

A USMC Marine waving at a friend on the German airship "Hindenburg" at Lakehurst, 20 May 1936.

(Associated Press/Oakland Tribune Photo)

A closer look at the Hindenburg's gondola as sailors from Lakehurst Naval Air Station use guy poles to help the airship to its mooring.  This was the Hindenburg's first US landing on 9 May 1936.

(Wide World Photos/Minneapolis Sunday Tribune Photo)

The Hindenburg's first landing at Lakehurst, NJ May 9, 1936. Passengers are seen descending the airship's folding stairs

(John Collier Photo)

Boeing Stearman trainers in civil livery, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, New Jersey, 1 June 1942.

(USN Photo)

Vought F4U-1A Corsair (BuNo. 17912), Bombing Fighter Squadron 4 (VBF-4) "Flying Ubangis", Naval Air Station Wildwood, New Jersey, 1945.

(USN Photo)

U.S. Navy Vought F4U-1D and Goodyear FG-1D Corsair aircraft of Bombing Fighting Squadron VBF-151 at Naval Air Station Wildwood, New Jersey, 9 April 1945.

(NMNA Photo)

North American SNJ-4 Texan (BuNo. 26859), USN, assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit (CASU) 23, in flight near Atlantic City, New Jersey, ca 1945.

(USAF Photo)

North American F-51H-5-NA Mustang (Serial No.  44-64310), 119th Fighter Squadron, New Jersey Air National Guard, 1953.

(Bill Larkins Photo)

Curtiss C-46 Commando (Serial No. 44-78023), painted as 0-478023), New Jersey Air National Guard, ca 1950s.

(NMUSAF Photo)

Republic F-84F-30-RE Thunderstreak (Serial  No.  52-6415) of the 119th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 177th Tactical Fighter Group, New Jersey Air National Guard, 1961.

(NMUSAF Photo)

General Motors F-84F-25-GK Thunderstreak (Serial No. 51-9396), 141st Tactical Fighter Squadron,  New Jersey Air National Guard, 1959.

(NMUSAF Photo)

North American F-100C-25-NA Super Sabre (SerialNo. 54-2114) from the 119th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 177th Tactical Fighter Group, New Jersey Air National Guard, refueling from a Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter.  The 119th TFS flew the F-100C from 1963 to 1970.

(USAF Photo)

Republic F-105B-20-RE Thunderchief (Serial No. 57-5829), 141st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 108th Tactical fighter Group, New Jersey Air National Guard, ca 1968.  The 141st TFS was based at McGuire Air Force Base and flew the F-105 from 1964 to 1981.

 (USAF Photo)

Convair F-106 Delta Dart formation, 119th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, New Jersey Air National Guard, 1975.

(TSgt. Ernest Sealing, USAF Photo)

Convair F-106A Delta Dart aircraft from the 177th Fighter Interceptor Group, New Jersey Air National Guard, 1 Oct 1984.

(TSgt. Ernest Sealing, USAF Photo)

Convair F-106A-105-CO Delta Dart aircraft (Serial No. 59-0027) from the 119th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 177th Fighter Interceptor Group, New Jersey Air National Guard, firing an AIM-4 Falcon missile, 1 Oct 1984.

(TSgt. Ernest Sealing, USAF Photo)

Convair F-106A-105-CO Delta Dart aircraft (Serial No. 59-0027) and (Serial No. 59-0031) from the 119th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 177th Fighter Interceptor Group, New Jersey Air National Gu ard, 1984.

(SSgt. David McLeod, USAF Photo)

Convair F-106B-31-CO Delta Dart (Serial No. 57-2514) from the 119th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 177th Fighter Interceptor Group, New Jersey Air National Guard, 1986.

(Rob Schleiffert Photo)

McDonnell Douglas F-4E-37-MC Phantom (Serial No. 68-0357), 141st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 1988.

(USAF Photo)

McDonnell Douglas F-4E-37-MC Phantom (Serial No. 68-0357), 141st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 1990.

(Alain Rioux Photo)

McDonnell Douglas F-4E-37-MC Phantom (Serial No. 68-0533), 141st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8 Sep 1990.

McDonnell Douglas F-4E-40-MC Phantom II (Serial No. 68-0459) from the 141st Fighter Squadron, 108th Tactical Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, off the right wing of a Norwegian General Dynamics F-16B Fighting Falcon aircraft during exercise "Barfrost '89", 1 Oct 1989.  The 108th TFW was deployed to the Arctic Circle location for a six-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air-land exercise.  (TSgt. Michael Haggerty, USAF Photo)

(Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht, 177th FW/PA Photo)

Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker, from the 150th Air Refueling Squadron, 108th Wing, 2012.

(MSgt. Don Taggart, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon,  177th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, 2002.

(MSgt. Andrew J. Moseley, USANG Photo)

General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcons from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing, fly in formation over Bulgaria during Thracian Star on 20 July 2015.  Thracian Star 2015 was a bilateral training exercise to enhance interoperability with the Bulgarian air force, hosted by Graf Ignatievo Air Base.

(SSGT Sean M. Worrell, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16 Falcons from the New Jersey Air National Guard at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 21 Oct 2000.  The F-16s were a part of the coalition forces of the 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing, Prince Sultan AB, KSA, that enforced the no-fly and no-drive zone in Southern Iraq to protect and defend against Iraqi aggression.

(Staff Sgt. Lee O. Tucker, USAF Photo)

General Dynamics F-16C Block 25F Fighting Falcon (Serial No. 85-1411) from the 119th Fighter Squadron, 177th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, 23 July 2004.

(Staff Sgt. Ross Whitley, USAF Photo)

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker with the 108th Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, assigned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, refueling a Boeing B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 343rd Bomb Squadron, 24 May 2016.

(Master Sgt. Mark Olsen, NJARNG Photos)

The 1-150th Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard, received its first UH-72A Lakota helicopter at the Army Aviation Support Facility in West Trenton, New Jersey, 12 Dec 2013.

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