Withdrawn from use in 2009

Now on display with a pilot. This is one of the few non-airworthy planes in the collection. Beautifully restored for display after being recovered from Lake Michigan

This A-7 was TOC by the USN around 1972 and was deployed with VA-46 aboard USS John F. Kennedy for during Operation Desert Storm. After retirement it was transferred to the Naval Air Technical Training Command at NAS Memphis, TN and assigned as a ground trainer. It is now on display at the Heritage In Flight Museum at Logan County,

After being TOC by the USN, this F-4 was retained by McDonnell-Douglas in St. Louis as an F-4B air frame test aircraft becoming the first aircraft to fire a Phoenix missile. On 11th December 1964 it was damaged and w/o in a deck accident on USS FD Roosevelt, therefore transferred to the Air Training Command at Chanute AFB, IL., assigned as ground trainer and redesignated as GF-4B. Now on display at the Heritage In Flight Museum in false USAF markings.

Air History as the SH-60F variant within the US Navy was phased out in April 2016.

Air History as the HH-60H is retired from the US Navy fleet. Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 3 'Tridents' had four SH-60F and to HH-60Hs on strength during the deployment of Carrier Air Wing EIGTH.

Dynamics all over. The yellow shirt (flight deck operations) on the left is directing the S-3B in position at the catapult under the careful eyes of two white shirts (deck safety officers), walking left and right of the wings. A green shirt (equipment) in the middle shows a weight board to the catapult officer (sitting right) with the weight of the aircraft projected. The catapult officer programmes the catapult's steam to the right level in which the Viking can reach its take-off speed. The yellow shirt shooter (also right) will then be ready for its procedure to launch the aircraft.

Catching the number 4 wire at the TR. Aircraft usually go for the number 3 wire. Pilots are aiming for that wire, as it is the safest/most effective one. They never aim for the 1st because that one is dangerously close to the edge of deck. If they come in too low on the 1st wire, they could easily crash into the stern of the ship. It is acceptable to snag the 2nd or 4th wire, but for a pilot to move up through the ranks, he/she has to be able to catch the 3rd wire consistently. In the squadron room the achievement of each pilot is logged, catching too many times the wrong ones cost you beers