with additional titles: A320 Friend Ship

A test F-4C (designated as NF-4C) at the massive platform of Edwards AFB (CA). In these day's countless F-4s in all variants could be found here. Check the large pitot tube of this old Phantom. The 6512th Test Squadron under command of the 6510th Test Wing operated at that time with A/YA-7D, VA-7F, A-7K, NA/OA-37B, NF-4C/D/E, YF-4E, NRF-4C, F-15A/B/C/D/E, F-111A, F-111D, FB-111A (later, F-111G), UH-1N, O-2A, T-37B, T-38A, AT-38B, T-38C, and UV-18 (haha!) in all kinds of test missions. The F-4s were eventally pashed out in 1992. The squadron is currently known as 4445th Flight Test Squadron.

Only just withdrawn from use when it was pictured at a platform at Edwards (the fin tip of the aircraft was temporarly cannibalized to keep another prototype in the air), this B-1A prototype in a great camouflage jacket. The 74-0158 made its first flight on 23 December 1974 as the first of four prototypes of the Lancer from Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale (CA). By the time that the B-1A programme was cancelled, 0158 had made 79 flights totaling 405,3 hours. It was eventually dismantled and used for weapons training at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado.

The fuselage was a little plain but the aft and tail colours made up for it!

Sold in Canada in July 2017. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Registered February 1970. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Here with a different aircraft name than on my 2011 shot.

Retired in May 2014 and stored at Roswell NM.

With 50 years anniversary sticker and "Since 1959" text. The aircraft was withdrawn from service in October 2017 and flown to Victorville CA for storage. In 2019 it was acquired by an airline called One Caribbean and registered N508BB. It was flown (all white) from Victorville to Phoenix AZ on 23 May 2019 and then on to the island of St Vincent and the Grenadines. You can find a video of it landing there on the internet.

It was named Helder from August 2011 to August 2012

Another livery variation of PH-HZG's lease to Sun Country Airlines. Apologies about the object in the bottom left of the picture.

An example of one of its other liveries.

Florida One from another perspective.