"NITRO 71" FGR.4 leads a 4 ship of Typhoons on a morning mission for AF 24-1/Bamboo Eagle

The Junkers W33 D-1167 Bremen made the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight from east to west on 12-13 April 1928, landing on Greenly lsland, Quebec. Lt Richard Cobb flew this US Army Loening trying to help. Cobb was acting on the orders of, and sometimes transporting, Gen Brown of the Army's 1st Corps Area, headquartered in Boston. Thus the winged 1 emblem, also seen in photo 640547, may be related to the 1st Corps Area. Photo by: Lesly Jones / Boston Public Library

This is actually F-4A 148275, which was the last F-4A built. It spent its entire active life assigned to VF-121 at NAS Miramar, CA. VF-121 was the first fleet squadron to receive the F-4, and was a crew training squadron. The aircraft has been on display at the USNA since 1969, and has been painted in the markings of several different squadrons over the years.

WG465 undergoing civilian conversion with Southend Light Aviation Engineering. Had been registered as G-BCEY on 14th May 1974. Current in 2024.

w/o 28jul16, crashed during a strafing run during a night training flight on a weapons range.

Delivered new to the RMAF in January of 1977 carrying serial FM-1720. It was then re-serialled to M23-16 in 1984 and is reported to have briefly carried civilian registration 9M-ZAR in 2008 (for modification and certification work?). A total of 16 RMAF S-61's were written off over the years, with M23-16 being the last one, suffering a hard landing on August 2, 2019. Actually, this very accident - luckily without loss of life - sealed the fate of the surviving 12 or so RMAF's Nuris, as the fleet was permanently grounded. Keeping them airworthy has become an issue in the previous years anyway.

This Hoplite flew with the Hungarian AF from November 1982 until August 2000 and was then stored wfu at Szolnok. It now acts as a billboard in Miskolc for a volunteer organization in Miskolc.

1968 built M23-08 (ex FM-1708, ex FM-1148) was among the first batch of ten S-61 Nuri's (Parrot) delivered to the Royal Malaysian AF as from 1967. They were initally serialled FM-1140 to FM-1149. While FM-1143 was written off in 1972, the remaining nine in 1975 were re-serialled to FM-1701 to FM-1709. A further 33 Nuri's were deliverd between 1971 and 1978, bring the total number operated by the RMAF to 43. Unfortunately, 16 helicopters were lost over the years, finally grounding the fleet in August of 2019, after more than 50 years of operation.

'Chiefs' F-15E turning final to runway 14 this week during AF 24-1/Bamboo Eagle