Delivered to the USAAF as 44-61669 on 05 May 1945 and operated from Guam during WWII. Later modified to a TB-29A. Assigned to NAWS China Lake on 18 Mar 1956 and used as a ground target. Assigned to the USADF Museum Loan Programme and loaned to Yesterdays Air Force in 1974. Flown to Barstow for storage. Registered on the US civil register as N3299F on 30 Apr 1976. Cancelled on 15 Aug 1995. Loaned to the March Field Air Museum and flown there for preservation in Jan 1981.

Former United N582UA.. Purchased by Fedex for spares

Assigned serial 44-74494 on 17 Dec 1944. To the Royal Canadian Air Force as Mustang TF.IV with serial 9237 on 06 Dec 1950. Withdrawn by 1958. Ferried to the US as N6313T but ntu. To N6356T on 27 Dec 1959. To N72FT in Jan 1981. Still current in 2023. Flies in South Africa painted as USAAF 411661.

Modified as a crop duster and later as a fire fighting Air Tanker with a T-6 engine. Was officially registered to Dale P. Newton (Talent, OR) from June 1981 until cancelled in November 2012. Preserved at the Pima Air Museum since 1990. According to them the U.S. Forest Service loaned the aircraft to the museum as part of their program to preserve historic fire-fighting aircraft. The museum purchased the aircraft in 2015.

Pan American Airway's Consolidated "Commodore" at their Alameda base in 1937. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge can be seen in the background. Apologies for the rope in front.

During open house at Edwards AFB.

This 1976 YF-18A is the 6th McDonnell Douglas built single seat prototype and was delivered to the US Navy on 31 Jan'80 with code 6 to the Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River (MD). It served the NATC up to 22 Oct'84 when it was transferred to NASA. Initially it carried its BuNo and "NASA 840", in 1985 it received registration N840NA. The Hornet was used from 1987-1996 as a High Alpha Research Vehicle with thrust-vectoring vanes, research flight control system and forward fuselage strakes. Since 2003 it is preserved at the Virginia Air & Space, Hampton (VA). Here pictured at Dryden FRC.

There were ten 354th TFW A-10A's visiting from Myrtle Beach AFB, SC. Later converted to an OA-10A. Retired to AMARC with inventory code AC0171 on 05 Apr 1993. Departed to HVF West in Tucson, AZ on 28 Jan 2016 for scrapping.

CAL NG flight over Stockton, California.

Del 28 Jun 2011

Willows Flying Service rice seeder at Willows in June 1964, with small Willows Flying Service titles on the fin. This aircraft is ex USAF 42-17282, and survived with various owners in the USA as N4763V until cancelled from the register in September 2011 on export to Brazil as PR-TCP.

The Consolidated "Commodore" made its first flight in 1929 and was the state-of-the-art flying boat in the early 1930s. It was increasingly obsolete by 1937. The model 16-1 had a capacity of 22 passengers and 3 crew members.

Del 06 Fab 2018 Test Registration as N1002R Registered to AerCap as G-CKOF,Norse Atlantic Airways as LN-FNK "Redwood",Norse Atlantic Airways as G-CKOF "Redwood"

The CA-3, CA-6 and CA-8 variants of the Airsedan looked much more elegant than the CA-5, having a small tapered lower wing. This aircraft advertises Signal Oil's Purr Pull Gasoline, a high-grade purple-coloured fuel. One of NC9629's owners was Bankline Oil, but it doesn't seem that this company owned Signal Oil. The last listed owner is Los Angeles Aircraft at then LA Municipal Airport, now LAX. The plane was seized by customs in 1933. Photo from: University of Southern California

"RAID 92" KC-135R rolling out on runway 32 after a mission to refuel Navy/Marine aircraft

What a nice visitor from nearby Edwards AFB. This NKC-135R with the 412th TW made the first ever successful air-to-air refueling with an F-35 on March 12, 2008. In 2009 it was designated NKC-135R.

Del 30 Apr 2019

Del 25 May 2007

Del 17 Aug 2017 Test Registration as N26970