One of 45 TH-1Ls used for immediate helicopter training by HT-18. Preserved at Budd McGee Air Park, Inyokern, CA by 1999

Retired to AMARC in 1985 and to Ecuadorian Naval Avation as HN-313. W/o 31st January 2001, crashed 150km NW of Quito

Operated by the 138th Aviation Company in the ELINT role over Vietnam from 1966. To MASDC just a couple of weeks after this capture. Broken up after 1983

Rebuilt from an FY52 L-23A as L-23D and converted to RL-23D, redesignated RU-8D in 1962. To MASDC in August 1980 and broken up after 1982. Primarily used in Vietnam, the RU-8D's role was to home in on enemy radio communications using its radio receivers

Spotter's dream. 40 T-34s for the taking

Taken into service c1976 and to AMARC 2014, struck off following year

Taken into service c1976 and to AMARC June 2015. Returned to service then back to AMARC

Moved to the Robins AFB Museum of Aviation by 1985 and to civil registry as N134RR in 1997, current in 2025

Displayed at the 1975 Paris Air Show. Later moved to NAS Whiting Field, FL for preservation on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation

Turboprop conversion from T-34B. Flew again, becoming N190AC by mid-1998. Current in 2025 as a T-34C with an owner in Colorado

Preserved here since 1962 (my 2024 photo here)

The USAAF immediately passed C-47B 43-49442 to the US Navy in 1944 where it served as an R4D-6/C-47J till retired to the Pensacola museum. Now displayed in 1944 invasion colours at Warner Robins with original serial as per my December 2024 photo

Crashed at Doubtful Sound on April 21, 1983. Bob Kerr photo

After donation to the NMNA in 1976, the surviving VS-44 was later transferred for an extensive restoration at Sikorsky's Stratford CT airfield, where it was built in 1942. First operated by American Export Airlines with beds, dressing rooms, galley, snack bar, lounge and full ventilation, it was impressed for war service by the USN as JR2S-1 12391, carrying passengers and freight between New York and Foynes, Ireland. In 1949 Tampico Airlines attempted to start freight runs in the Amazon but abandoned the VS-44 in Peru. In the late 1950s it was recovered to California for Avalon Air Transport.

Before the Battle of Britain flight got the Lancaster and Dakota a Devon of 207 Squadron often provided the ground crew transport. On this occasion my late father Barry Taylor was the pilot and borrowed my camera to take these pictures at the Roanne Air show in France.

Roanne Airshow 1978. Taken by my late father Barry Taylor with my camera while supporting the Battle of Britain Flight. He had flown the ground crew over in a 207 Squadron Devon. This aircraft had been at the Bassingbourn airshow earlier that year. Marked in the pre war US Navy fighter colours of VF-3 'Shooting Star's with the Felix the cat emblem. This was also used by VF-6 which caused a big dispute and is currently the emblem of VFA-31 'The Tomcatters'