This weird looking x-wing was delivered to Dryden as N805NA with code NASA 838 on 12 March 1979. The Lockheed Folding Wing was on and off active and stored at Dryden but eventually withdrawn from use and transferred to the NASA Ames Research Center museum in February 1998.

Beautiful NASA GII departing off of runway 22L

Note the mighty black Boeing Condor drone above.

First flight 1966, this Learjet was a true oldy! It is former an ASSESS airborne telescope aircraft. and served this laboratory from 1973 onwards. The 24A was then delivered NASA Ames (N702NA) where it was registered on 10 Jun'74. It was moved to Dryden on 9 Feb'98 as N805NA. The jet was sadly lost in an accident on 7 Jun'01 during a hard landing at Victorville (CA). The 24A was under control of the co-pilot who disengaged the yaw damper and entered a pilot induced lateral oscillation. The airplane rapidly decelerated and developed a high sink rate. It bounced several times and came to rest.