Conceived as a motor glider and sport touring aircraft, the RF 4 was introduced in 1966. It is of all-wood construction and is fully aerobatic. The RF 4D is the main production variant with 155 built in Germany by Sportavia-Putzer (D was for Deutschland). This example is still airwothy.

Delivered August 31, 1955 to Shearwater Naval Air Station, Anti-Submarine Sqdrn HS-50. 1956 to HU-21 as number 7. From 1970 to 1985 as instructural aid at School of Aerospace Engineering at CFB Borden. Over the next years restored at New Brunswick Community College in Dieppe. At the Shearwater Aviation Museum since 1998.

This is the only remaining Gloster Gauntlet and flew previously with the RAF as K5271. When the Winter War broke out in 1939, Finland began looking for war material from any available sources. The Federal Government of South Africa donated 29 aircraft, 24 of which were brought to Finland. The Gauntlet was retired 1945 and this is the only surviving example.

Instructor cockpit

pilot's cockpit

1855 ATC Royton

It has faded a bit since my last visit to this plane a dozen years before...

The PIK-3 (Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho - Finnish institute of technology students flying club) was a glider produced in Finland in the 1950s and 60s. It was designed to be cheap and easy-to-build in order to to equip the country's gliding clubs. Design work commenced in 1942 but the prototype did not fly until 1950. This was refined for production as the PIK-3A and then further modified to the PIK-3b by replacing the flaps with air brakes. Including the later PIK-3c with improved wings, some 40 PIK-3s were built with this example arriving from the Suomen ilmavoimamuseo at Jyväskylä in 2016.

Mock-up of the Hawk 200 single seat version in distinctive desert camouflage pattern with no serial or roundel, but with an unknown badge on the tail.

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

Used as a ground instructional airframe, later registered N74TA. The QU-22B was intended as an unmanned airborne relay for the 'Igloo White' operation during the Southeast Asia War. This placed and monitored sensors to detect traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In 1970 a detachment of the 553rd Recon Wing known as the "Vampires" conducted the first operational QU-22B mission, all flights then carrying a pilot due to unreliability problems with the equipment. In 1972, after the loss of several aircraft, the USAF cancelled the QU-22 program

Inside the inner courtyard and thus not visible from outside, this Nomad is in use as instructional airframe. The friendly guard allowed me to have a peek and a photo.

The P-811 was part of the twelve-strong order of Searchmaster Bs.

Of the four F-5Fs, two are preserved, one is in use as instructional airframe and one is stored. As the other preserved one is on military grounds inside the gate of the KOOPSAU III (Komando Operasi Angkatan Udara III) barracks at Biak, this TS-0513 is likely the only that you can photograph as of 2025.