This F-106 served with the 5th Fighter Intercepter Squadron at Minot AFB, North Dakota, for a full 25 years, from 1960 to 1985. It survived a mid-air collision as well as conversion to QF-106 drone, and is now preserved.

The Bronco in its civilian life as a wildfire spotter. Formerly USMC 155502, this aircraft also flew as a narco fighter as N477AW. N407DF is in the background.

Although Sacramento is 100 miles from the ocean, McClellan gained a US Coast Guard station in 1978 as SFO became too busy. An active HC-130 is framed here with the preserved HU-16 and HU-25 at the local museum. The last active HU-25, not this one, was retired at Corpus Christi, Texas on 23 September 2014, a week before I took this picture.

The spot on the corner of Branscombe Rd and Creed Rd, Suisun City, was just as good as I hoped for, but the traffic was not. The only plane I was able to photograph here was this recently upgraded C-5 from Dover, Delaware.

A beautiful Skymaster in the Aerospace Museum of California, wearing her true USAF serial although she spent her entire military career in the US Navy as 50874. She then became N27MA in 1976.