Photographer Don Spering

Photographer Eddy de Kruyff

Photographer Alberto Storti

Photographer Eddy de Kruyff

Photographer Alberto Storti

Photographer unknown

Transferred to AMARC from its homebase Niagara Falls (NY) on 10 October 1990, received inventory code FP574. Moved to Fritz Enterprises, Taylor (MI) on 19 May 2000 and was scrapped. Here the FIS Spook participated in a live shooting camp at Tyndall. The ground crew give their aircraft an inspection before another flight.

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Delivered to the USAF 5 January 1983 and made its last operational flight to AMARC on 12 December 1995. Received inventory code FG0339.

Deployed from homebase Jacksonville ANGB, this F-16 participated in a live shooting camp at Tyndall. The 159th FIS flew the F-106 for 12 years and like most F-106 FIS', was planned for transition to F-4 or F-15, but the USAF decided that the F-16 was the most ideal a/c for the continental air defense mission. So the unit received the F-16 from Jan'87. On 1 Apr'87, the 159th became the first F-16 unit to sit alert in an Air Defense role as a FIS on a 24/7/365 basis. In Jun'92, the FIS became a Fighter Squadron. 0759 was former TJ, HR before 159th, then Oregon ANG, since Oct'07 pres Medford (OR)

Delivered to the USAFE 50th FW at Hahn in 1983, then moved in 1992 to the Florida Air National Guard. Last flown by the Minnesota ANG before storage at AMARC with inventory code FG035 on 20 May 1996.

Tyndall based 95th Fighter Interceptor Training Squadron Shooting Star, resting at the flightline. The squadron was part of the Air Defense Weapons Center (ADWC) which was inactivated on 12 September 1991. This T-33A went to storage at AMARC in July 1988. It's fate is not known by me. The purpose of the little antenna on top of the vertical tail is not known to me. It's deviating from other T-33s.

Tyndall based 95th Fighter Interceptor Training Squadron Shooting Star, resting at the flightline. The squadron was part of the Air Defense Weapons Center (ADWC) which was inactivated on 12 September 1991. This T-33A, in it's final months of operational service, went to storage at AMARC on 1 December 1987 and received inventory code TC1344. It was moved to HFV West, Tucson (AZ) on 15 January 2009 for scrap.

Tyndall based 95th Fighter Interceptor Training Squadron Shooting Star, resting at the flightline. The squadron was part of the Air Defense Weapons Center (ADWC) which was inactivated on 12 September 1991. This T-33A went to storage at AMARC on 11 January 1988 and received inventory code TC1352. It was moved to HFV West, Tucson (AZ) on 22 January 2009 for scrap.

A Tyndall based 95th Fighter Interceptor Training Squadron Shooting Star, resting at the flightline. The squadron was part of the Air Defense Weapons Center (ADWC) which was inactivated on 12 September 1991. This T-33A went to storage at AMARC on 1 December 1987, received inventory code TC1345 and departed the center on 15 January 2009. It was moved to HFV West at Tucson (AZ) for scrap.

Preserved at Charleston AFB (SC) since March 1992. Here the 136th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Phantom, deployed from homebase Niagara Falls ANGB (NY), can be seen at the flightline of Tyndall AFB (FL) during a live shooting camp. It's getting some maintenance on the APQ-109 radar

Aircraft destroyed in a non fatal accident 27 March 1981. Crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, recovered and used as trainer at MacDill AFB before being put on display at Joe Davies Airpark

The US Coast Guard received 23 ex UASF HC-131As from the USAF in 1976 as a stop gap replacement for the HU-16 pending delivery of the HU-25 Guardian. A few of these were held in storage at MASDC for spares use. 5805 (ex 52-5805) was later registered to Central Air Service as N81559 in May 1989 and sold to Starship Inc in 1996. The registration was cancelled in July 1997 as exported to Mexico but the aircraft remained in store at Avra Valley and was later scrapped. The nose survives in the Pima museum collection.

The first USAF fighters based at Soesterberg. The 32nd Fighter Day Squadron had just been activated here in October 1954. The unit began to receive the F-100C less than a year later, the F-102A in 1960, the F-4E in 1969, the F-15A in 1978, and the F-15C in 1980. The 32nd was inactivated in 1994. 52-5276 supplied to the Spanish air force in 1957. Photo by: Van Duinen / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)