LTV A-7 Corsair II (USAF Photo) LTV A-7 Corsair II (Serial No. 70-0955) of the 76th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 23rd Tactical Fighter Wing, airdropping Mark 82 hi-drag bombs over the Eglin Air Force Base range, Florida, 1 May 1980. The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured byLing-Temco-Vought … Read more
Douglas AD-5 Slyraider (USN Photo) A U.S. Marine Corps Douglas AD-5 Skyraider (BuNo. 133885) of Marine Attack Squadron 331 (VMA-331) “Bumblebees” in flight. VMA-331 was operating from the aircraft carrier USS Leyte (CVS-32), circa in the mid-1950s. 133885 was transferred to the U.S. Air Force and was shot down by ground fire near Ban Senphan, Laos, … Read more
Douglas C-47 Dakota and Skytrain (USAAF Photo) Two USAAF C-47A Skytrains (based on the Douglas DC-3) from the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron, loaded with paratroopers on their way for the invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon). The aircraft in the back is a Douglas C-47A-65-DL (Serial No. 42-100550), the other is a C-47A-90-DL (Serial No. 43-15661). … Read more
Douglas SBD Dauntless and A-24 Banshee 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 … 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
Bell X-22A (US Army Photo) Bell X-22A V/STOL Research Airplane (Serial No. 151521), currently in the Niagara Aerospace Museum, Niagara Falls, New York, on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation. The Bell X-22 is an American V/STOL X-plane with four tilting ducted fans. Takeoff was to selectively occur either with the propellers tilted vertically … Read more
