Sikorsky HSS-1N Seabat BuNo 148938 photographed on display at Kirtland AFB. It was retired by the US Navy to MASDC, (as it then was), at Tucson in 1974 but was later re-issued to the USAF as an UH-34J, hence its presence in this museum.

Photographed on display in the New Mexico ANG area at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM.

Photographed outside the USAF Rescue Heritage Hall Museum at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM., but is now believed to be held in storage at The Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, GA.

Photographed on display outside the New Mexico ANG headquarters at at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM.

Ex-US Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross serial 1280 photographed on display at the USAF Rescue Heritage Hall Museum at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The aircraft is painted to depict USAF HU-16B 51-071 which was destroyed by enemy fire, and two of its crew killed, whilst attempting to rescue the crew of a shot-down USAF F-4C Phantom off Haiphong, North Vietnam, on 14th March 1966.

Vought A-7D Corsair II AF72-0177 painted as AF72-0245 photographed displayed in the New Mexico ANG area at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM., on 05-10-2000.

This is a composite of 52-8706 and 52-8691. Preserved at the Rescue Museum from 1981 with fake marks 34343. Later marked as 8706. Moved to Little Rock AFB Heritage Park in 2016.

Withdrawn from use in 1981 and preserved at Kirtland AFB, NM.

Built in 1943 as a USAAF C-60A this aircraft served with the Royal Australian Air Force as A67-5 in WWII and post war was civilianised, firstly as VH-GRB, and later VH- OAS. It returned to the USA in 1953 as N4849V and later carried the registrations N667, N1000S and N101S. In 1959 it was converted to Howard 250 standard and was sold to Mexico in 1967 where it was registered XB-SAO. It returned to the US register as N2786Y in December 1982 and flown to Albuquerque, where it was reported as "stored" in October 1986. (Thanks to the Air-Britain publication "The Lockheed Twins" for information).