This Australian-built Sabre (RAAF A94-354) found its way to the US via the Malaysian air force (serial FM1354). Its current whereabouts is unknown.

If you look closely, this is a McDougall-Douglas TA-4J. Named after the aircrafts main restoral expert Mike McDougall. After a brief visit, it's seen here departing from runway 20R

SUNLINER 404 F/A-18C blasts out of NAS North Island

Early in the morning the heli is still wet caused by the cold and foggy night. Unit is HMT-301 Windwalkers from MCAF Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

VAQ-133 EA-6B starts the roll down runway 24R as CVW-9 will perform a mass fly-by over NAS North Island to end the CoNA festivities

On outdoor display at the Milestones of Flight Air Museum since March 1992.

In Jan 1953 this old B-25C (ex USAAF 41-13251) was acquired by Howard Hughes's Hughes Tool Co., which had it converted it for executive use. It was fitted with rear doors, a bathroom and large bed, possibly for Mr. Hughes himself. It was wfu in the late 1950s and stored at Culver City, CA. In Jul 1974 they donated it to the museum, then still named the Antelope Valley Aero Museum. The museum closed in Jun 2015, and the B-25 was sold to San Simeon Air. It was dismantled in late 2015, and the forward and center fuselage was trucked to Breckenridge, TX for restoration. The aft fuselage, wings, engines and other parts were trucked to Nut Tree Airport at Vacaville, CA. The current status of this restoration project is unclear.

This unmarked Chickasaw at the Milestones of Flight Air Museum is usually quoted as 55-4943, but this is almost certainly not correct. That serial is quoted on a modification data plate in the cabin, but the fuselage main data plate quotes serial 53-4441. The latter is usually considered to be the most relevant and most reliable plate. Following the museum's closure in Jun 2015, this helicopter was moved to the Estrella Warbirds Museum in Paso Robles, CA in late 2015.

This Seabat was withdrawn for Navy service in Jun 1970, and later became N85128 with an owner in Fairbanks, AK, but it may never have been delivered. Eventually acquired by the museum circa 2008. Almost immediately after the museum's closure in Jun 2015, this helicopter was moved to the Estrella Warbirds Museum in Paso Robles, CA.

The Milestones of Flight Museum was formed by Lee Embree in the early 1970s, then named the Antelope Valley Air Museum. In 1986 the name was changed to Milestones of Flight Museum. This C-97 has been part of the collection since at least 1988. The museum closed in 2015, and although the exhibits were sold for restoration or offered for scrap value, this C-97 was still present by Mar 2018, as were the Argosy and the C-119.

Part of the museum's collection since 1992/1993.

Built for US Navy as R50-5 Bu12473. Civilianised as N505R, later N1210 and N1210L. Preserved in the March AFB Museum, initially wearing spurious USAF markings as '833538' as seen here.

Fighter Squadron (VF) 194 "Red Lightnings" was a short-lived Tomcat unit of the United States Navy. The squadron was re-established on 1 December 1986 and already disestablished on 30 April 1988. VF-194 was planned together with VF-191 for a cruise on the USS Independence as part of Carrier Air Wing 10, but before the cruise could take place the squadron ceased to exist. The squadron lineage runs back to 1952 as it was originally established as VF-91 on 26 March 1952, redesignated VF-194 on 1 August 1963 and disestablished on 1 March 1978.

VF-126 "Bandits" operated with the first badge (26 aircraft) of US Navy F-16s, the aircraft were modified (lighter - other radar and gun removed - and strenghtened, and all provisions for external loads were removed) from F-16A-standard and were designated F-16N. The Navalised version was mainly used for dissimilar air combat training (DACT) mission and acted as adversary aircraft. This 163275 received FMS serial 86-1376 and was retired in June 1994 to AMARC with inventory code AN1F00001 (that became later AAFG0428). It was scrapped by mid-February 2013.

PASSWORD 35 C-2A recovers back to home station late in the afternoon

EP-3E from NAS Whidbey Island was an early arrival for the CoNA static display

Boeing's 747-8F on a test flight out of SBD and coming off runway 24

Taxiing out for Rwy 30. In the back you will notice black storm clouds, actually these thunderstorms were some of the worst ever, which hit the LA area with flood and even hail.