K25 slide scan. Built 1945 as 37254 for USN. Retired to Litchfield Park 1953. Ralco N7248C 1957, stored Douglas Bisbee, AZ. Converted to sprayer 1971. Used for fire ant spraying in Georgia early 1980's, Southwest Aviation 1985. Ferried to Las Cruces, NM and stored. Reregistered N2PV 1988.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1953 as R4Q-2 131677 to USMC, redesignated C-119F 1962, retired to MASDC 1975. Dross Metals 1980, civilanized as N48543, Marine Lumber Company N175ML 1984. Mid Atlantic Air Museum 1995, flown to Reading, PA for restoration.

K25 slide scan. Built for LAI as I-LIRA 1958. Not taken up but instead delivered to TWA as N8083H. Converted to freighter 1961. Alaska Airlines 1962, retired 1967. Converted to bulk fuel carrier 1968 for use on the North Slope by Red Dodge Aviation and Prudhoe Bay Oil Distribution, stored Anchorage 1972, Kenai 1974. Flown to CHandler, AZ 1981 and overhauled 1983. Used as drug runner, damaged in Colombia late 1983. Flown to San Pedro Sula 1983 and stored. Acquired by Maurice Roundy 1986 and flown to Auburn-Lewiston, ME. Acquired by Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung 2006 together with N974R and N7316C.

K25 slide scan. Built 1954 as C-123B 54-592 for USAF, later converted to C-123K, retired to MASDC 1982. Auctioned as N9629N 1986, stored Avra Valley. North East Aviation Group, New Bern, NC 2000. Moved to Coastal Carolina Regional Airport for restoration. Airworthy from 2002, registered to Hagerstown Aviation Museum from 2019.

Visible are 2 smoky take-offs off RWY 01R+L and a classic 737 of United.

SA Air Force Side

Pictured just months after delivery February 26, 1991, this 757 Luxury Jet was retired January 7, 2015. It was sold and ferried to Roswell, NM where it was parted out.

K25 slide scan. Remanufactured by Beech 1952 as C-45H 51-11614 from msn 4236. Air Asia/Air America 1964, converted to VTB-18 Super Turbo 18 by Air Asia at Taiwan 1966. Used extensively in South East Asia. Sold 1975 to Ciba Pilatus Aerial Spraying as HB-GFT and converted to agricultural sprayer. Used in Arabia and Africa on locust spraying contracts. Kalitta 1991, ferried to Willow Run in full Swiss markings. Remained in storage until scrapped in 2001.

K25 slide scan. Built 1956 as LN-KLD for SAS. Linjefly SE-CCU 1969. Combs Airways N323CF 1979 after freighter conversion, Trans Continental 1985, Four Star Air Cargo 1995, active until about 2004, stored Opa Locka. Scrapped 2011.

K25 slide scan. Built 1944 as TC-47B 44-76812 for USAAF, transferred to USN as R4D-7 99828. Civilianized as N3454G, later reregistered N66, N49966 and finally N145JR with Rhoades. Cancelled 1994, derelict Nashville, TN.

K25 slide scan. Built 1944 for USAAF. TWA NC88824 1945. Beldex 1952, Westinghouse 1953, Central American N272R 1975, Century Airlines 1984, Piedmont Air Cargo 1995, Cascade Air 2006, Desert Air 2010. The oversized nose was fitted whilst in use as an avionics test bed with Westinghouse.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1988 as N745CC, reregistered N826BE 1989. Gulfstream International 1995, reregistered N261GA 1996. Air Jamaica Express 6Y-MX 1998, cancelled from USCAR as exported.

K25 slide scan. Built 1943 as USAAF 43-49322, delivered to USN as 50793, transferred to FAA 1957, final registration N33. Retired 1982 and transferred to USAF museum. By 1991 at MN ANG Museum Minneapolis being stripped down for repaint into fake identity as "43-15620".

This Nighthawk is still wearing the colours of the 37th FW based at Tonopah, NV.

K25 slide scan. Accepted 1959 as 147948 by USN, retired to MASDC 1975, struck of charge 1978. Civilianized as N80232 for Central Air Service 1989, apparently never used and stored at Avra Valley, cancelled 2018, still present 2022. Sporadically being worked on, tip tanks fitted past 2011 but did not move.

This classic 747 is caught on very short final for RWY 25L.

K25 slide scan. Built 1978 as Short 330-100 PJ-DDA for ALM. Mississippi Valley Airlines N335MV 1980. Sunbird Airlines 1984, converted to -200. CC Air 1985, operating as Piedmont Commuter, returned to Shorts 1988. Command Airways operating as American Eagle 1989. Aviation Services dba Charter Oak Avation 1991, Air Cargo Carriers 1994, cancelled 2005 as scrapped at Milwaukee, WI.