Operated by 512 FIS of the 406 FIW based at Sembach, Germany. Wears contracted fin serial 2035. Displayed at the 1958 Burtonwood open day.

The F-86D Sabre Dog all-weather fighter was more complex than the similar F-86K, which was supplied to five European NATO countries from the mid-1950s. Denmark received some sixty used F-86Ds instead from June 1958. The Danes found the F-86D's systems difficult to keep up. Note the retractable tray for 24 'Mighty Mouse' unguided rockets. USAF serial of this machine, 51-8421.

Operated by 512 FIS, 406 FIW, based at Sembach West Germany. Wears contracted fin serial 2030.

Note the retractable tray for 24 unguided rockets in the belly of the F-86D all-weather interceptor. European air forces mostly got the simplified, cannon-armed F-86K but Greece received some used USAF F-86Ds in 1961.

F-86D Sabre Dog all-weather interceptor of 512 FIS from RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, at the 1956 US Armed Forces Day at Burtonwood, Lancashire.

In addition to several hundred F-86Fs, many of which were built in Japan by Mitsubishi, the JASDF acquired 122 F-86D "Sabre Dogs" between 1958 and 1961

A very attractive recent restoration. I have written to the Museum to try to obtain the real identity, as the one displayed is probably false, but without a reply. It is ex Danish Air Force F-977 and thus 51-5977