In the 1960s, Aero Union acquired five former US Navy AF-2 Guardians. Only two were fully converted to airtanker (N9995Z and N3144G), a third was partially converted, and two remained unused and unconverted. The latter three remained in storage at Chico, CA for many years.
Falsely painted as N9995Z, the Guardian at the Pima museum is in fact N9994Z, which was one of the unconverted aircraft. Aero Union donated it to the Pima Air Museum in 1991, restoring it to static display condition the previous year. Although this aircraft had never been an airtanker and had never seen service with Aero Union, they painted it in their full markings to resemble Aero Union's airtanker N9995Z / 21-E.

Arriving on the Friday before the airshow.

Last known operator was Lauda Europe - 9H-LOY (October 2020).

Under restoration at breighton by The Real Aeroplane Company. The first post restoration flight was on May 19th 2006.

Ranger 96 arriving from Ramstein

Departing from The Scottish Air Ambulance hangar at Glasgow

After Vietnam FAC service, flew with the NY, MI and CA ANGs before ferrying to the USAFM in December 1982

It also wears the previous registration D-MSKJ on the rear fuselage.

On the way to Zaragoza to attend the NATO Tiger Meet, this Mi-35 sports a WWII commemorative livery.