ca.1967: TOS USN and assigned to Attack Squadron 125 (VA-125), NAS Lemoore, CA. By 1976: VA-203, NAS Cecil Field, FL. It was later assigned to the Naval Air Technical Training Center at Millington, TN before being placed in the Naval Aviation Museum loan program. It was loaned to Prairie Aviation Museum at Bloomington, IL, in 1991 but was not transported there until July 2000.

11/76: TOS USMC. 4/77: Naval Air Rework Facility, NAS Pensacola, FL. 6/79: VMA-223, MCAS Cherry Point, NC. 5/81: VMA-331, Cherry Point. 5/82: VMA-33 at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. 12/82: VMA-223, Cherry Point and made several deployments with them to Japan over the next 17 months. 4/87: VMA-124, NAS Memphis, TN. 2/94: MAG-42, NAS Memphis. Ca.1996: The Naval Aviation Museum took control of the plane when it retired. 11/2000: Loaned to the Prairie Aviation Museum in Bloomington, IL.

This Phantom was built originally as a F-4B at St. Louis and TOC by the Navy in 1962.It served at various times aboard USS Forrestal, USS Midway and USS Coral Sea before finally being retired in 1997. It is on long-term loan at the Prairie Aviation Museum from the NNAM in its VF-161 USS Midway markings.

This Tomcat was built by Grumman at Bethpage, NY and TOC by the Navy in Jan. 1981. In the coming years it flew with various squadrons aboard USS Eisenhower, USS Kennedy, USS Constellation and USS Theodore Roosevelt as well as participating in combat missions over the Persian Gulf. It is now on display at the Prairie Aviation Museum on permanent loan from NNAM.

Operated by the Prairie Aviation Museum. The #2 engine was in the process of being removed after suffering a failure a few days before

Late build Skyhawk exhibited at the aviation museum at Bloomington Airport.

A-7A Corsair II displayed in the markings of VA-125 attack squadron at the Prairie Aviation Museum.