Unit: VXE-6. Famously the C-130 repaired and reflown 17 years after an accident in Antarctica. Picture taken the year before the accident.

Project Magnet. Aircraft retired in 1972 and later scrapped

Based Sangley Point, the Philippines

Weathering the storm.

Not having managed a good photo of a Greyhound at NAS Norfolk, I was delighted to see this example turning up for some circuits here at CGAS Elizabeth City during our base visit.

The E-1 Tracer was the airborne early warning variant of the S-2 Tracker. Preserved on the USS Yorktown.

Actually Serial no 1 of the French Navy in fictitious marks

An experimental VTOL aircraft, intended to take off and land as seen here. The identity of this aircraft is uncertain. Most say that it is the first prototype 138657, mysteriously painted as 138658. But reliable sources state that only parts (engine and props) of 138657 survived testing by Hiller Aircraft in the late 1950s. The second prototype 138658, left incomplete and without an engine when the design project was cancelled, went on display at NAS Los Alamitos and later at NOLF Imperial Beach until it disappeared in the early 1990s. Then in the mid 1990s the aircraft in this photo suddenly popped up in Florida. It seems likely then that this is in fact the real 138658 (with the props from 138657) and that it was painted correctly.