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I spent Friday, June 23, 2000 watching the arrival of airplanes for the airshow at Van Nuys Airport. This year's airshow is coming up on June 23-24. I will be at the usual place again.
U. S. Navy Fairchild C-26D, 90-7038 was built
as a C-26B Metro for the Air Force. The Navy has mounted an
unusual pod under the rear fuselage.
Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker, 57-1462 serves the
121st Air refueling Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard at
Columbus.
Visit the web site of the 121st Air
refueling Wing.
Visit the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Product Page.
Rockwell Sabreliner 265-40 N467H is owned by Raytheon and
operates from the Van Nuys airport. It was built in 1962. It
appears to have some kind of sensor head on a steerable mount on
its nose.
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F/A-18A-20-MC Hornet, 163098 is flown by the CAG of VFA-97 at
Lemoore Naval Air Station in the central valley of California. It
deploys on the USS Carl Vinson.
Visit the web site of the VFA-97
Warhawks.
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F/A-18A-21-MC Hornet, 163143 is flown by the CO of the VFA-97
Warhawks and wears gray camouflage.
N50TC
is a Boeing 737-72T. It was registered to Tracinda Corporation of
Beverly Hills in January 1999.
Northrop T-38A Talon, 67-14920 wears the WM tail code of the
509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. The 509th
also operates the B-2 Spirit.
Visit
the web site of Whiteman Air Force Base.
Luftwaffe Panavia Tornado, 45+62 of the Tornado
Training Squadron of the German Air Force
Tactical Training Center is based at Holloman Air Force
base in New Mexico.
Visit the web site of Holloman Air Force
Base.
MiG-15 trainer
Pacific Air Lines Martin 404 N636X is the
flagship of Airliners of America. It is based at the Camarillo
Airport. The bulge on the top rear of the engine nacelle is a
housing for a JATO unit.
It was delivered to TWA on July 16, 1952, registered as N40429. Its name was Skyliner Peoria. In 1959 it was sold to California Airmotive Corporation. Subsequently it was owned by E. F. McDonald, James McAlister, Montex Drilling Corporation, Airworld Incorporated, Whitesell Construction Corporation, Joe Simpkins Oil, Tiffany Industries Isd., Phase II Incorporated, and Sun & Wind Incorporated. It is currently registered to Skylease Incorporated of Wilmington, Delaware.
Visit Airliners of America's Martin 404 page.
Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk, 161562 of Helicopter Anti-submarine
Squadron Light HSL-41 Seahawks of Naval Air Station North Island,
California.
Visit the HSL-41
page of the Naval Helicopter Association
Lockheed-Martin F-117A Nighthawk, 85-817 wears
the HO tail code of the 49th Fighter Wing Black Sheep based at
Holloman Air Force Base.
Link to a history of the 49th Fighter Wing.
Lockheed-Martin F-117A Nighthawk, 85-817.
Visit the Lockheed-Martin F-117 Nighthawk Page.
Link to the Air Force Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk fact sheet.
Air Force Reserve Lockheed C-141B
Starlifter, 63-8084 of the 452nd Air Mobility Wing is based at
March Air Reserve Base, California.
Link to the web site of the 452nd AMW at March Air Reserve Base, California.
Cessna T-37B Tweety Bird, 59-321 of the 47th Flying Training Wing
based at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. It has the word Tigers
in yellow on this side of the tail, but the word Panthers appears
on the other side. The tail code of the 47FTW is XL.
Visit the Laughlin AFB web site.
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F/A-18A-14-MC Hornet, 162407 of VMFA-134 based at Miramar Marine
Corp Air Station. It wears desert camouflage for the role of
adversary in air combat training.
Visit the Miramar MCAS
web site.
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F/A-18A-14-MC Hornet, 162407 of VMFA-134. It carries tail code
MF.
Pair of Boeing-McDonnell-Douglas
F/A-18A Hornets of VMFA-134. The near Hornet is F/A-18A-15-MC,
162442.
Northrop T-38A-85-NO Talon, 70-1586 of the 47th
FTW Red Bulls based at Laughlin Air Force Base.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 42H
Fighting Falcon, 90-719 of the 138th Fighter Wing of the Oklahoma
Air National Guard based at Tulsa International Airport.
Visit the Lockheed-Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon Page.
Grumman EA-6B Prowler, 161779 flies with the VMAQ-1 Banshees
based at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station. VMAQ-1 aircraft
carry the tail code CB.
Visit the VMAQ-1 web site.
Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 25F
Fighting Falcon, 85-407 of the 144th Fighter Wing of the
California Air National Guard based at Fresno.
Visit the Fresno ANG
web site.
Visit the Air Force Lockheed-Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon fact sheet.
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F/A-18A-8-MC Hornet, N850NA is based at the NASA Dryden Flight
Research Center at Edwards AFB. It was originally built for the
Navy as 161703.
Link to NASA Fact Sheet about their F/A-18 chase planes.
Boeing-McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18D(R)
Block 37 Hornet, 164674 of VX-9 Vampires has a nose modified to
carry photographic reconnaissance equipment. It is based at the
China Lake Naval Air Warfare Development Center in California.
Visit the VX-9 web site.
Douglas
DC-3 N193DP is owned by the Santa Monica Museum of Flying. It was
built as R4D-1, BuNo 01977 for the U. S. Navy in 1942.
Visit the Santa Monica Museum of Flying web site.
Tailcode OT indicates that Fairchild-Republic
A-10A Warthog, 79-171 is operated by the 53rd Test and Evaluation
Group of the 53rd Fighter Wing based at Nellis Air Force Base.
Visit the web site of the 53rd
Test and Evaluation Group.
Visit the Air Force Fairchild-Republic A-10A Thunderbolt fact sheet.
Visit the web site of Nellis Air Force Base.
Grumman designed FM-2 Wildcat, N5833 was built by General Motors.
It is operated by the American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum in
Midland, Texas. It originally flew as BuNo 86819 and still
carries that number on its tail.
Visit the web site of the American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum.
Hawker Sea Fury FB Mk. 11, N260X wears Royal Australian Navy
colors. It has been owned by Ellsworth Getchell for 25 years.
Here is N260X at Chino on May 20,
1984.
North American P-51D Mustang, N514DK is
registered to DK Warbirds of Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally built
as 45-11558 for the Army Air Corps, it has crashed at least
twice, once in Georgia in 1967 and once at Van Nuys on June 8,
1985.
Here is the same Mustang at the Pt.
Mugu NAS Airshow on October 13, 1990, when it was registered as
N6175C. It was owned by Joseph Kasperoff who named it "The
Healer".
Go to the Airshow Page of the Goleta Air and Space Museum.
Go to the home page of the Goleta Air and Space Museum.
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