28 Mar '83: First flight. 31 Mar '83: TOS USAF and assigned to 511th Tactical Fighter Squadron/81st Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Bentwaters, England. By 7/95 to After 8/12: 81st Fighter Squadron/52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem AB, West Germany. 2005: Converted to A-10C. 5/10 to 9/10: Deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. By 6/15: 74th Fighter Squadron/23rd Fighter Group, Moody AFB, GA. By 3/19: 354 FS/355th Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

122TFS F-15A visiting the California ANG at March AFB

rare visitor at Dusseldorf

Part of a 4 ship of RHINO F-4D's 89TFS arriving to Miramar

This C-47 was built as a C-47B-16-DK at Oklahoma City and TOC with the USAF in December 1944. It was converted twice, firstly in September 1954 to a C-47D and then around 1956 an executive interior was fitted to make it a VC-47D. In July 1971 it was transferred to the Chanute Air Force Base Training Center at Rantoul and used as an instructional airframe. It joined this museum in 1993 but was offered for sale as scrap in September 2017, two years after the museum closed.

This Aardvark was built as a F-111A and was accepted into the USAF in February 1965 . It was loaned to General Dynamics to be used as a test bed for the MK-1 NAV/Attack system and thento to Pratt and Whitney as an engine/intake test bed. In December 1969 it was transported by ground to 3345th Maintenance and Supply Group (Air Training Command) at Chanute AFB and re-designated as a GF-111A. By 1974 it was retired and on display at the base, formerly joining the Octave Chanute Museum in 1993. After the museum closed the plane found a new home at the Lake County Veterans Memorial at Waukegan, IL.

TIGRE 32 A-7D taxis in to the static display area at Van Nuys 88'

Langley's Wing King arrives at March during 'Gallant Eagle 88'

BATS A-7D Iowa ANG on final for 21R at Gunsmoke 89'

With F-16C 84-1384/HR. On 3 Apr 1991, 758 was assigned to the 119th FIS, NJ ANG when it crashed off the coast of New Jersey killing the pilot.

Unfortunately the Chanute museum had already closed for good and all its exhibits were being disposed of. Due to the kindness of one of the administrators I was allowed an hour to have a look around. This F-4 first flew in September 1963 and was used, in the first part of its service life, as a test aircraft, for example in the development of the J79 engine. In June 1978 it was transferred to Chanute Technical Training Center (Air Training Command) at Chanute AFB but SOC in May 1985 and placed on display. Fortunately it is now on display at the Regional Military Museum in Houma, LA.

The one and only reconnaissance version of the B-49 to fly. It initially survived the cancellation of the bomber version to make 13 test flights. It was then grounded at Edwards AFB. In 1952 it made one last flight to Northrop's Ontario California factory where it was scrapped in 1953. Photo from: National Library of Australia