Constructed as P-47D-15-RA 42-23278 by Republic at Evansville, IN and registered N5087V and N347D postwar, this "Razorback" (later P-47Ds had a bubble canopy) was donated to the USAFM by Republic in 1964, having appeared at the Paris Air Show the previous year. By 2004 it had been repainted as the P-47 in which Col. Neel Kearby won the first Medal of Honor awarded to a US fighter pilot, with 22 kills in the Pacific theatre before being shot down over New Guinea in March 1944. The actual fin of his aircraft, named after his red-haired wife, was recovered from the wreck site is shown alongside

Built as an N2S-5 by Boeing, BuNo 60591 was apparently allocated but not taken up, this Kaydet joining the USAAC as PT-13D 42-17800 instead. Postwar it was registered to the Boeing company in Wichita as N41766 and in 1958 was delivered to the USAF Museum with Being Vice-President aboard what was the company's last biplane flight. Until 2013 it was displayed in the standard blue/yellow training colours but following restoration was presented as it left the production line, with BuNo on tail and USAAC serial on left-side TDB, but records show that 60591 actually became 42-16550

Of the 203 Owls ordered in 1940 for the USAAC for observation duties, four survive. This two-seater type , the last in the 'O' series before the 'L' designation replaced it, had forward and rear firing machine guns. They were used for anti-submarine searches in the Americas and through lend-lease also on the Eastern Front in Europe by the Soviets. However it was quickly realised that its performance was inadequate, leading to its relegation to courier-type duties

Ex-N569R, 65371, LN-KLV, OH-VKA, OY-KLE, OY-DCA, NC34989, 41-20058

Ex-D-HLEB, D-HLFB, N3203K, D-HMBM, D-HFHZ

Ex-D-CIAS, N88927, T.2B-144

Ex-"D-ALAP", "D-ADAM" and F-BHML

Sep '58 to Nov '59: Specially modified for the mid-air retrieval of space capsules re-entering the atmosphere from orbit. 19 Aug 60: Made the world's first midair recovery of a capsule returning from orbit when it snagged the parachute lowering the Discoverer XIV satellite at 8,000 feet altitude, 360 miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. Mov '63: Flown to the Air Force Museum at Wright Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, waiting there for the new museum to open. August '71: Placed on display at the Air Force Museum.

Sep '58 to Nov '59: Specially modified for the mid-air retrieval of space capsules re-entering the atmosphere from orbit. 19 Aug 60: Made the world's first midair recovery of a capsule returning from orbit when it snagged the parachute lowering the Discoverer XIV satellite at 8,000 feet altitude, 360 miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. Mov '63: Flown to the Air Force Museum at Wright Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, waiting there for the new museum to open. August '71: Placed on display at the Air Force Museum.