51-2151 and 51-2146, in the background, were both retired to MASDC from 340 BW at Whiteman in 1960. 51-2151 is also reported written off at Pinecastle AFB, Florida on June 26, 1954, but this is clearly incorrect. A search reveals that the aircraft lost an engine in flight on that date and suffered category 3 (Substantial) damage. Photo by: Gerald Massie / Missouri State Archives

The 340th Bombardment Wing, Medium operated the B-47 and KC-97 from Whiteman AFB from 1954 until 1962. The tanker seems to wear the star-spangled fuselage band seen sometimes on Strategic Air Command aircraft. Photo by: Gerald Massie / Missouri State Archives

Landing at some sort of event. An aerial photographer with the USAAF during WWII, Gerald Massie became Missouri's official state photographer from 1945 and continued to take promotional photos until 1974. The helicopter also had a long active career, from 1955 until 1979. It is preserved at Little Rock AFB since 2016. Photo by: Gerald Massie / Missouri State Archives

F-84Gs 51-769, 51-1225, 51-1694 and 51-1867 received an E for Exempt prefix for ZELMAL (Zero-length Launch, Mat Landing) V/STOL trials. A big rocket blasted the Thunderjet into the sky and the pilot was supposed to land, gear up, on an inflatable mat, using an arresting cable. 51-1225 was damaged beyond repair in the first mat landing at Edwards on 2 June 1954. Here it is seen at the Mid-America Jubilee exhibition in Saint Louis, held in September 1956 on the Mississippi riverfront where the Gateway Arch stands today. Note the additions on the nose, already seen in a shot of 51-1225 being launched. Photo by: Gerald Massie / Missouri State Archives

Photographer: Robert Burgess.

Photographer: Robert Burgess.

After being retired this Choctaw was transferred to AMARC with the inventory number XJ094 but was photographed at this amazing collection in the Saint Louis suburbs.

After this Mohawk was SOC it was transferred to AMARC with the inventory number YA056. It later (1989?) was registered N2608 but this was cancelled in 2011 and the plane ended up in this amazing collection. Sorry about the intruding fence.

Photographer: Clyde Gerdes.

N341HA was seen in storage at Detroit / Willow Run in 1997, still with a green cheatline after its lease to Channel Express between 1991 and 1994. The Electra was broken up in 2007.

Delivered to Slick Airways as N90807 in 1951. To Japan Air Lines as JA6201 in 1953, Transavia as PH-TRO then to Germanair as D-ABAZ in 1968, Jet Aviation as HB-IBW in 1971, Span East Airlines as N615SE in 1973, Guyana Airways as 8R-GEC in 1974 and returned to Span East in 1976 as N615SE. To Trans Continental Airlines in 1978. Sold in 1993. Used for parts by Everts at Fairbanks by 1998. Fuselage to their storage yard by 2008.

N589UC was built in 1981 and flew under this registration from 1989 until 1997. Sold as N945CE, the bizjet was retired at Fort Lauderdale and later transported to Rantoul, where it was seen in derelict condition in 2017.

Delivered to Transamerica Airlines as N742TV in 1980. To Cargolux as LX-ECV in 1987, Atlas Air as N539MC in 2008 and Cargo Air Lines as 4X-ICM in 2001. Withdrawn from use at Mojave, CA in 2014.

Air Midwest operated this Metroliner from 1985 till 1992 and provided feeder services for Eastern Airlines, TWA and finally US Air. The airframe was used for spares after 2004 and was seen in derelict conditions at Bates City MO in 2005.

C-47 type training based at Sedalia AAF, now Whiteman AFB. Lt Kirkpatrick's logbook shows he made 48 flights on the type here in four months. He also flew the CG-4 assault glider a couple of times. He had received multi-engine training on the Beech AT-10 Wichita at Freeman AAF, Seymour, Indiana. 42-23769 to Sabena after the war as a DC-3C, c/n 43089, OO-AUY. Photo by: James Kirkpatrick / Smithsonian Institution