9 May 1945: TOS USAAF as 44-83690 and put into storage with the 4100th Base Unit at Patterson Field, OH. 11/45: 4168th Base Unit, South Plains Field, TX. 6/47: 4141st Base Unit, Pyote Field, TX. 9/18/47: TOS USAF. By 2/51: Converted to DB-17G and flew to Kwajalein in the South Pacific for Operation Greenhouse nuclear testing. 1956: 3235th Drone Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL. Converted to a DB-17P drone director for testing various anti-aircraft missiles until the end of 1959. 8/60: WFU. 1961: Flown to Bunker Hill AFB (now Grissom AFB), IN, for display with fake serial. 8/15: Trucked to the Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB.

SHINR40 touching down at March after conducting testing in the NTTR for 5.5 hours.

This Thud is preserved from 1981 onwards at Fairchild AFB (WA). Exact date and location of the photo are unknown

Written off 14 Oct 1984 as N4416T near Suwon in South Korea. Another F-20 can be seen behind. That one is falsely marked as 83-1001 (not a valid serial).

Falsely marked as 83-1001, which is not a valid serial number. Must be 82-0063 or 82-0064.

This F-4 was originally built for the USN as F4H-1 but, before delivery, modified to become the USAF YRF-110A Spectre prototype, which was redesignated RF-4C in 1962. In 1965, it became the YF-4E testbed, to test F-4E slats and Fly by Wire (as seen in this picture). In 1974, canards were added on this aircraft. This photo was taken after the unqiue Phantom was retired and preserved in the Air Force museum.

Inbound from Lasak AFB, with six other F-15E Strike Eagles, Seymour Johnson AFB unit.

unexpected flypast of B52 c/s Fear and F35A c/s Loki

First visit of a B2 to RAAF Amberley Base.

4/45: TOS USAAF. Assigned to the 552nd BS/381st BG, RAF Ridgewell, England. It was the last plane assigned to this unit; did not see combat but was sent back to the USA after the war ended in Europe. 1948: Converted to MB-17G operating in the flying bomb project with the Guided Missile Wing, Eglin AFB, FL. Later converted to TB-17G. Then it went to the 3205th Drone Squadron, Eglin; converted to DB-17G and then DB-17P. 17 June '57: Flown to the Air Force Museum at Patterson Field, OH. 1988: Traded to the Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB for the recently restored "Shoo, Shoo, Shoo Baby.