Assigned to the Lift Training Center at Volk Field. The helicopter carried "ST" as a tailcode. The helicopter was built as a CH-53A with BuNo 154867, served the US Marine Corps some time and was retired in the early ninetees, was stored at Pensacola (FL), stricken from ithe inventory and moved to the USAF inventory as GCH-53A. Was an instructional airframe with the 82nd TRW and first reported at Volk Field in April 1997.

The prototype C-82, which lead a long line of twin-boom transports production culminating in the C-119, first flew as long ago as September 1944. This Packet was built in 1948 and served the 54th TCS/5039th Air Transport Group at Elmendorf AFB, AK. In 1955 it was sold as N4752C and joined Northern Air Cargo in 1970. Substantially damaged on approach to Nelson Lagoon, AK in November 1982, N4752C was repaired and ferried to the USAFM in June 1988. It is now displayed in the Arctic high visibility marking carried during its time in Alaska

This old workhorse is used at the Lift Training Center at Volk Field. Its tail was lying somewhere nearby in the grass.

AF1 Parked after Arriving into prestwick last night (25th July 2025) with Donald Trump onboard to visit his golf courses.

Evening arrival in support of the visit to Scotland by President Trump.

The YF-12 was developed in the 1960s as a high-altitude, Mach 3 interceptor to defend against supersonic bombers. Based on the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft, the YF-12A became the forerunner of the SR-71 strategic reconnaissance platform. The first of three made its maiden flight in August 1963; this is the second one built and was recalled from storage in 1969 for a joint USAF/NASA investigation of supersonic cruise technology in support of the SST and Space Shuttle programs. It was flown to the museum in November 1979, the other two having been destroyed in accidents

The X-5 was the first high-performance aircraft that could vary the sweep of its wings in flight and was an experimental design based upon that of the Messerschmitt P.1101, discovered in Germany at the end of WWII (sweep only adjustable on ground). Two X-5s were built, the first flight occurring in June 1951. One was destroyed in October 1953 when it failed to recover from a spin at 60 degrees sweepback, the survivor being delivered to the USAFM in 1958

Nestled under the XB-70 is the X-1B, which was instrumented to study thermal heating during supersonic flight. In 1957 Neil Armstrong, then a NACA test pilot, tested the installation of a system of small reaction rockets used for directional control. Cracks in the fuel tanks finally grounded the rocket plane with the last of 27 flights being made in January 1958

Displayed with its RAF serial, this Beaufighter was taken up by the RAAF as A19-43 and saw combat in the southwest Pacific with 31 Sqdn. Postwar it was used as an instructional airframe before becoming derelict, finding its way to the Moorabbin Air Museum in 1971. In 1987 it was sold to the USAFM where it was restored to represent the aircraft flown by the Commander of the 415 Night Fighter Sqdn USAAF based in Italy, who shot down a Heinkel He.111 carrying staff officers in September 1944

Ca.1949: TOS USAF. 1955: Sheppard AFB, TX, for maintenance training. 1956: Registered N2566B, exported to Mexico for Chiapas Aero Services, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapa with c/r XA-LOU. By 1960: Open storage in Mexico City. 1978-1988: Derelict, at a farm. 1990: Returned to USA. 1991-1993: Restored to static condition for USAF Museum using components from YC-125A 48-634 (N3756Q). 1994: United States Air Force Museum, 1995: Restoration completed at the museum. Marked as 48-622, which was stationed at Wright-Patterson for cold weather testing. 2022: NMUSAF solicited for buyers. 2025: Engines removed.