Warplanes of the USA: Pennsylvania, Historic Photos
Pennsylvania Warplanes
(Kenn Mann, USAF Photo)
Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II formation flight, 111th Fighter Wing, Willow Grove Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, 2005.
(NMNA Photo)
Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless (BuNo. 22613), assigned to Composite Squadron 22 (VC-22) with its cafrrier arresting hook down during an approach for landing. VC-22 operated from Naval Air Station Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, during May-June 1943.
(USN Photo)
U.S. Navy Consolidated TBY-2 Sea Wolf with folded wings. Note the APS-4 radar, zero-length rocket launchers, and the machine gun pods under the wings.
(NMNA Photo)
Vought XTBU-1 prototype (BuNo. 2542), later designated as the TBY Sea Wolf, produced at the USN production facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1943-44. The production TBYs were radar-equipped, with a radome under the right-hand wing. The first one flew on 20 August 1944, with 180 built. Most were used for training.
(USN Photo)
Curtiss N2C-2 Fledgling converted into a target drone at the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1938/39. Note that the aircraft has been fitted with a tricycle landing gear.
Keystone Aircraft Corporation was an early American airplane manufacturer. Headquartered in Bristol, it was formed as "Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp" in 1920 by Thomas Huff and Elliott Daland, but its name was quickly changed to "Huff-Daland Aero Corp", then to "Huff-Daland Aero Company". The company made a name for itself in agricultural aircraft, and then in the US Army Air Corps' early bomber aircraft. From 1924, James McDonnell was the chief designer.
(USAF Photo)
Keystone B-3A bomber (Serial No. 30-281, the first B-3A built; front right three-quarter view, Bristol.
(USN Photo)
Vought O3U-6 Corsair drone. The U.S. Naval Aircraft Factory at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, converted a small number of 03U-6s to drone configuration in 1941 for flight testing under extreme conditions where a pilot might be endangered.
The RB-1 Conestoga was a twin-engine, stainless steel cargo aircraft designed for the US Navy during the Second World War by the Budd Company of Philadelphia. Although it did not see service in a combat theater, it pioneered design innovations in American cargo aircraft, later incorporated in modern military cargo airlifters.
(USN Photo, NH 87996)
U.S. Navy Budd RB-1 Conestoga (BuNo. 39295) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland (USA). Note the North American PBJ Mitchell in the background. The photo is dated 24 May 1949, but in early 1945 all RB-1s were transferred to the War Assets Administration and on 5 July 1945, fourteen of them were sold to the National Skyway Freight Corporation (NSFC), which in turn sold four aircraft to Shell Oil. 39295 became the civilian NC45348 of NSFC in July 1945 and was out of use in July 1947.
(USAF Photo)
North American F-51D-25NA Mustang (Serial No. 44-73551), 103rd Fighter-Bomber Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, ca 1954.
(TSgt. Matt D. Schwartz, USAF Photo)
North American F-51H Mustang, 103rd Fighter-Bomber Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, Spaatz Field, Reading Airport, Pennsylvania, 1957.
(USAF Photo)
Republic F-47N-20-RE Thunderbolt (Serial No. 44-89131), 112th Fighter Group, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1949.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Republic F-47N-15-RE Thunderbolt (Serial No. 44-89051), 146th Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1953.
(NMNA Photo)
The second production Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK-1 (BuNo. 44314) at the Kaiser-Fleetwings factory airfield at Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1946. This aircraft was fitted with leading edge slats.
(NMUSAF Photo)
North American TB-25K Mitchell, ex-B-25J-25-NC, (Serial No. 44-30643), Pennsylvania Air National Guard, ca 1950s.
(USAF Photo)
Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando (Serial No. 44-77715), 140th Aeromedical Transport Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, Spaatz Field, Pennsylvania, 1957.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Republic F-84F-5-RE Thunderstreak (Serial No. 51-1373), 103rd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1954.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire (Serial No. 51-3562), 103rd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1958.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Lockheed T-33A-1-LO Shooting Star (Serial No. 53-5224), 112th Fighter Group, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, ca 1950s.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Convair F-102A-75-CO Delta Dagger (Serial No. 56-1361), 146th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1967.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Convair F-102A-90-CO Delta Dagger (Serial No. 57-0847), 46th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1969.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Cessna U-3A Blue Canoe (Serial No. 60-6052), 103rd Tactical Air Support Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1969.
(NMNA Photo)
Douglas A-4E Skyhawk (BuNo. 150013) of Marine Attack Squadron VMA-131 Diamondbacks assigned to the Marine Air Reserve Training Detachment (MARTD) at Naval Air Station Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, dropping bombs during a training mission, ca 1970s.
(A1C David A. Greso, USAF Photo)
Lockheed EC-121S Warning Star of the 193rd Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1973.
(Tech. Sgt. Bob Kay, USAF Photo)
Lockheed EC-130E Hercules (Serial No. 63-7869), 193rd Special Operations Squadron, 193rd Special Operations Group, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, over Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1980.
(Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation Photo)
Lockheed EC-130E(RR) Hercules (L-382), 193rd Special Operations Squadron, 193rd Special Operations Group, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1998.
(TSgt. John McDowell, USAF Photo)
Lockheed EC-130E Hercules Serial No. 63-7869), 193rd Special Operations Squadron, 193rd Special Operations Group, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, Middletown, Pennsylvania, 1992.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Cessna A-37B Dragonfly (Serial No. 73-1062), 103rd Tactical Air Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1981.
(Rob Schleiffert Photo)
Cessna A-37B Dragonfly (Serial No. 73-0370), 103rd Tactical Air Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1988.
(USAF Photo)
LTV A-7D Corsair II (Serial No. 74-1742), 146th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1978.
(USAF Photo)
LTV A-7D Corsair II (Serial No. 71-0377), 146th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1979.
(USAF Photo)
LTV A-7D Corsair II (Serial No. 71-0362), 146th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1979.
(Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation Photo)
LTV A-7D Corsair II (Serial No. 71-0362), 146th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1 July 1991.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
LTV A-7D-12-CV Corsair II (Serial No. 72-0194), 146th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1984.
(USAF Photo)
LTV A-7K Corsair II (Serial No. 81-0074), 146th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1989.
(SSgt. Andy Dunaway, USAF Photo)
Boeing KC-135E Statotanker, 146th Air Refueling Squadron, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1996.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Boeing KC-135E Statotanker, 146th Air Refueling Squadron, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1993.
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker (Serial No. 58-0117), 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, refuleing a McDonnell Douglas F-15C-35-MC Eagle (Serial No. 83-0026), 2007
(USGOV-PD Photo)
Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II (Serial No. 79-0219), 103d Fighter Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1999.
(Capt. Peter Smedberg, US Army Photo)
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief U.S. Army Sgt. Jay Herring assigned to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation Regiment, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, and Task Force Phoenix, scans his sector of fire while making an approach into a landing zone in Kabul, Afghanistan, 4 Sep 2013.
