First served VA-81 and VA-83 before joining VA-46 in 1988. Displayed in their marks as onboard USS John F Kennedy in 1991. Markings below the cockpit indicate the number of bombs dropped by this aircraft in the Gulf War rather than missions flown. To AMARC 1991

First delivered to the USAAF as 44-44175 in September 1944, this B-24 was passed straight on to the RAF as Liberator GR.VI KH304 that November. The British abandoned many Liberators in India at the end of the war, India putting several back into service after independence and using them until the late 1960s. After storage at Chakeri this aircraft was assigned the serial HE877 by the Indian AF in 1948. In March 1969 it was ferried from Poona to Tucson via the UK. Now displayed with Indian markings on the right side, with the left in the 1944 colours of the 446th BG, Bungay, Suffolk, England.

An early example of the first Learjet variant, built in 1964

In the markings of the 319th BG, Okinawa, 1945

Colours as flown in 1938

The current gate guard at the Pima museum, parked near the entrance. Entered service with the USN in 1961 as A4D-2N 148571

Originally an American Airlines machine and later flown by ATA, Laker, and Cal Air/Novair, Project Orbis acquired this DC-10 (line number 2) in 1991 and equipped it as the flying eye hospital. After retirement, arrived at Pima in November 2016. MD-10 N330AU now fulfils the eye hospital role.

On display for many years in its final identity, N534J, in 2007 this Dragon was repainted in its smart 1950 colours as it flew for Great Lakes Carbon as N61Y. Originally delivered to the USAAC in 1950 as 39-051, the B-23 was based on the DC-3 and intended as a replacement for the B-18, which had in turn been based on the DC-2. Only 38 were built and the type never saw combat.

Still carrying the red cross as flown on relief between March 1969 and March 1970 by Balair for the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Biafran War. Originally tanker KC-97G 52-2626, later modified by the removal of refuelling gear to C-97G

In the colours of VFC-13, NAS Fallon, NV, ca. 1996. Originally delivered to the USAF as 74-1564, hence the out of sequence Bu Aer number adopted when the aircraft was transferred to the Navy around the early 1990s. Moved from the the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, Miramar to Pima in 2021 and repainted from Marines markings.

Special retro scheme applied by TAW-4, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, TX around 2011

Shown in the marks of the 7th Geodetic Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Group, Forbes AFB, KS in 1949. In 1956 the aircraft, one of 220 C-82s built, was sold to Samuel Rudolph Lumber as N6997C, in 1963 on to New Frontier Airlift and in 1969 to Allied Aircraft. However it remained unconverted at Tucson Airport till 1983 when acquired by Pima.

Painted to represent Flying Fortress of the 390th Bomb Group at Framlingham, Suffolk, England in 1943, this is really a B-17G-110-VE 44-85828 built by Lockheed-Vega at Burbank. In August 1945 it was transferred to the US Coast Guard at Elizabeth City, NJ as a PB-1G, serialled 77254. It flew its last mission in October 1959 and was sold in 1960 as N9323R, being converted to a sprayer in 1962. Further modifications came in the late 1960s when it became a firefighting tanker, ending up with Aero Specialities at Mesa, AZ. Transported to the Pima museum by road in December 1980.

This Viking was aboard USS Eisenhower with VS-31 during Desert Storm. Later it was transferred to VS-21 at Atsugi, Japan and deployed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. The special paint scheme was applied in 2004 to mark the disestablishment of the squadron.

Markings of VF-111, USS Kitty Hawk, 1979

Two-seater as flown by VMAT-203 from USS Roosevelt in 1976

VMA-513 Harrier in an impressive line-up of the type