Historic Aircraft |
 |
| TITLE |
+ |
- |
| FILE NAME |
+ |
- |
| DATE |
+ |
- |
| POSITION |
+ |
- |
|
|
Lockheed P2V-7521 viewsDrop on Telegraph Fire, Mariposa, CA July 2008Flybabe
|
|
Vintage Wings Sabre MK5454 viewsThis Sabre will be painted in Golden Hawks colours for 2009. boxcar
|
|
Republic F-84F Thunder Streak494 viewsThe aircraft on display at Castle was delivered to the U.S. Air Force in November 1954 and served with the Strategic Air Command until 1957. It was then transferred to the Tactical Air Command and later to the Air National Guard. For a time, it was stationed in France with the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. The last Guard F-84Fs were retired in 1971.jetjockeybearup
|
|
Boeing B-47 Stratojet428 viewsThe Aircraft on display at Castle Air Museum is one of 264 B-47E-DTs built by Douglas Aircraft Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma for Boeing. It served with SAC's 9th, 509th, and 40th Bomb Wings in Idaho, New Mexico, New Hampshire, and Kansas. In 1964, it was transferred to the Navy and used as a photographic training target at the China Lake Weapons Center in California.jetjockeybearup
|
|
North American F-86H Sabre395 viewsThe F-86 Sabre served with the air forces of 20 other countries, including Australia and Canada. An all-weather version, the F-86D, with a redesigned nose to carry the radar, was the first to have all rocket armament and to have only one person operating the radar fire control system and flying the aircraft. The D model, known as Sabre Dog by its pilots, was the most produced model. The F-86, at one time, also served with the 84th Fighter Squadron that was based at Castle Air Force Base.jetjockeybearup
|
|
Avro Vulcan B.2493 viewsThe aircraft on display at Castle Air Museum, XM 605, is a B.2 version which was operated by the Royal Air Force's 44 Squadron and was based at R.A.F. Waddington, Lincolnshire, England. It arrived in 1981 and is on indefinite loan to the museum, courtesy of Her Majesty's Government.jetjockeybearup
|
|
Convair RB-36H Peacemaker543 viewsThe B-36 on display at Castle Air Museum is one of only four B-36 aircraft remaining and the only reconnaissance version. It served with the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Rapid City Air Force Base, South Dakota (Ellsworth AFB after June 1953) from 1952 to 1957. In 1957, it was sent to Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. There it served as a ground instructional airframe and finally was part of Chanute's Air Museum. It was brought to Castle in 167 pieces, requiring 11 flatbed railway cars to move it.jetjockeybearup
|
|
Castle Air Museum at KMER386 viewsWhen the closure of Castle Air Force Base was announced in 1994, a group of dedicated enthusiasts in the Atwater-Merced area formed a non-profit organization called the Castle Air Museum Foundation, Inc. Their purpose was to assume custody of the collection of aircraft. It was their dream to build a museum in which faithfully restored historic aircraft could be exhibited for public enjoymentjetjockeybearup
|
|
C-FKBU Fuel haul Ponask Lake 1983624 viewsNWONT
|
|
C-FKBU on Ponask lake 1983500 viewsNWONT
|
|
Norseman owned by Bearskin Lake air Service Kasabonika 1976519 viewsNWONT
|
|
|
|
|
