Ranger 96 arriving from Ramstein

When the US Naval Academy has summer break. Midshipmen travel to various Naval and Marine installations for service capability familiarization. Flight prospects travel to NAS North Island for a familiarization flight in the T-34. The T-34 detachment are the last few remaining in the US Navy and Marine Corps. This image show a midshipman in the back seat for their flight.

Parked / stored in the museum's restoration area, with all Marines markings painted out. This CH-46 was registered to the National United States Armed Forces Museum (Houston, TX) as N7682F on 12 Sep 2022, but this registration had not yet been applied at the time of this photo.

Interesting visitor at Schiphol, this KC-130J 166512 of VMGR-234 arrived on the longest day of the year, with nice and soft evening light.

Falsely painted in Marines markings as Bu1061 (the real 1061 was c/n 4344), this rare S-43 has in fact never seen military service. It was delivered in Jan 1937 as NC16934, and it kept that registration (later as N16934) until it hit a floating log on landing on Chignik Bay, AK (not on Tetlin Lake as widely reported) on 1 Jun 1951. Its hull ruptured, aircraft sank, registration cancelled 27 Jun 1951. Wreck salvaged 30 years later by Gary Larkins' and Darryl Greenamyer's Institute of Aeronautical Archaeological Research (Air Pirates) in 1981, and trucked to the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum at MCAS Quantico, VA. It was loaned to the Pima museum in 1985. Often reported as becoming N326, but this is not correct (N326 was c/n 4342).

Part of a small det of VMFA-115 Hornets at the NAF

"EVILI 03" CH-46E lifts off from Camp Matilda the old base housing area converted to an urban assualt training zone by the Marines