Part of the museum's inventory since 16 June 1980.

Virgin's Delight was delivered to the museum on 26 November 1979. It is ex N3702G, a former airtanker.

Despite its markings here, this Harvard never saw service with the US military. It is ex RCAF 2951, which was taken on charge on 11 March 1941 and struck off charge on 11 December 1946. After many years of storage it spent some years in a museum in Ontario in the mid 1970s. It very briefly became C-GDJC in Dec 1975 before sale to Hawkins & Powers Aviation in March 1976 as N99839. The Harvard finally arrived at the museum here in the early 1980s. Its identity is also quoted as ex RCAF 2684 c/n 66-2417, but in 1976 N99839 was definitely officially registered as c/n "66-2684".

With small Mesa Airlines titles near the forward door.

Operated by TBM Inc.

This is former US Marines Tracker Bu136421, which still has '6421' visible on the fin and 'Marines' on the wings. It was registered to the California Department of Forestry (CDF) as N434DF on 23 Jan 1974, but obviously it was never taken in service and the registration was never applied to the aircraft. Instead it ended up as a spares aircraft for the CDF at Sequoia Field, where it remained until it was moved to the Castle Air Museum on 14 Nov 2012. On 1 Feb 2000 the same registration N434DF was issued to Tracker c/n 335C.

Operated by TBM Inc.

The Vietnam Memorial in the Veteran's Park in Porterville. The serial is fake, but this Huey's true identity is not known.

With small titles on the cowling.

A former US Army UH-1H (ex 67-17725) at its home base, nicely lit by a low late-afternoon sun.

This Dallaero Lodestar was still under restoration when this photo was taken. It has its props missing and the "Superman's Daughter" nose art has partly worn off, but other than that it appears to be in good condition. The aircraft made its first post-restoration flight here on 26 Nov 2011 and was later based at Mount Pleasant, TX, painted with USAAF insignia on fuselage and wings.

After having been based at California City since at least 2006, this former US Navy R4D-1 (ex Bu01977) was flown out to Fulton County-Brown Field near Atlanta on 14 Dec 2012 and registered to the Coca Cola Co. a few weeks later, on 3 Jan 2013.

Registered to Baja Air on 5 Nov 2002 and initially based at Brown Field, San Diego. Their base had been moved to California City by late 2008. In Mar 2011 the aircraft was sold to Priority Air Charter, becoming N467KS in September of that year.

In 1987 this Convair was used by the NASA as a Space Shuttle Crew Escape System testbed. It was fitted with a CES (Crew Escape System) mockup on the left side of the rear fuselage. The aircraft was stored here at California City by 1993, and preserved by 1997, reportedly by a set-up called the California Museum of Air and Space.

An early HS.125 stored at California City. It was still here by Oct 2011, and was moved to India by road and ship a month later. Fate unknown.

As of Sep 1987 this Convair was used by the NASA as a Space Shuttle Crew Escape System testbed. This photo still shows the CES (Crew Escape System) mockup that was fitted to the left side of the rear fuselage. The CES was a candidate concept developed to provide crew egress capability during Space Shuttle controlled gliding flight. Actual tests of this system with this Convair began on 20 Nov 1987, whereby life-like dummies were pulled from the modified aircraft's side hatch mockup by tractor rockets. The aircraft had been stored here at California City by 1993, and preserved by 1997, reportedly by a set-up called the California Museum of Air and Space.

This brightly coloured Antonov 2 is the former LY-AFT, hence the partial registration on the fin. It carries the full reg LY-AFT under the wings.