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All images Neil Aird © 1966 - 1968 except where noted by Tom Baillie © 1968. NOTAMS: Adding more images from my collegue Tom Baillie in January 2012!! So y'all come back now! Updated: 28 January 2012 Busy scanning thirty more of my black and white negatives of our 1968 visit! 124 IMAGES! |
| With not enough money for much colour slide film, I had to make do with black and white, hoping to develop and print the negs someday. Well, that day has finally come. I don't even have to go into the darkroom to make the prints. |
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"Desert Tigers" two rows of the fine beasts. 141818/3L-641 Grumman F-11A Tiger USN VT-26sq.
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When NAF Litchfield (now Goodyear Airport) closed, many of these airframe were transferred to MASDC. Here 139531/4B-109 North American AF-1E Fury (209-151) Navy/Marine of VT-86sq is on display by the perimeter fence in an early version of "Celebrity Row".
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| 53-1525 North American F-86H-10-NA Sabre USAF. To Pima Air & Space Museum. |
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| 53-0965 North American F-86L Sabre Dog (201-409) USAF ex 354th FIS. To Pima Air & Space Museum. |
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| 53-1589 North American F-100D Super Sabre USAF Arizona ANG. |
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45-8612 Lockheed P-80B Shooting Star USAF. To Pima Air & Space Museum. Displayed as 22nd FBS, 36th FG.
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| 52-6563 Republic F-84F-40-RE Thunderstreak USAF. To Pima Air & Space Museum. Now painted in Thunderbirds c/s. |
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| 53-2674 Northrop F-89J Scorpion USAF. To Pima Air & Space Museum. |
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| What a difference colour makes. Photo: Tom Baillie © 09 September 1968 |
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51-5623 Lockheed F-94C Starfire (880-8219) USAF. To Pima Air & Space Museum.
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| 53-2135 Boeing B-47E Stratojet (44481) USAF. |
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49-0372 Boeing KB-50J Superfortress (16148) USAF.
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| 44-70016 Boeing TB-29-75-BW Superfortress (10848) USAF 4715th REVRON (ECM). Now at Pima Air & Space Museum. |
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| 43-27712 North American TB-25J-1-NC Mitchell (108-34710) USAF. Later to Pima Air & Space Museum. |
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| 43-22494 Douglas A-26C Invader (18574) USAF. Later displayed at Pima Air & Space Museum. |
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| 44-77635 Curtis C-46D Commando (33031) USAF. |
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| 41-7723 Douglas C-47 Skytrain ( 4201) USAF Minnesota ANG. |
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| 42-72488 Douglas C-54D Skymaster ( 10593) USAF - PACAF. |
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49-0157 Fairchild C-119C Flying Boxcar (10394) USAF.
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| 144044/01 Beech T-34B Mentor (BG-351) USN, Now resides in NMNA Museum. 49-0236 Douglas C-124 Globemaster (43165) USAF - scrapped. |
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53-0151 Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter (16933) USAF - SAC. To Pima Air & Space Museum.
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51-0022 Grumman SA-16A/HU-16B Albatross (G-96) USAF. To Pima Air & Space Museum.
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| 128362/S Lockheed P2V-5F Neptune USN/NATC. |
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| 39213 Beech SNB-5/UC-45J Expeditor (4297) USN 7L/213. MCAS El Toro. To Pima Air Museum. |
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| 133220 Grumman TS-2A Tracker USN. |
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| 124629 Douglas TF-10B Skyknight (7499) US NAVY NJ/196. To Pima Air & Space Museum, now painted as F3D-2T2 in Marines c/s. Coded LP-12. |
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| 134748 Douglas F-6A Skyray USN. To Pima Air & Space Museum, as F4D-1. |
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| 144426 Grumman RF-9J Cougar MARINES 7X/45. To Pima Air & Space Museum, as F9F-8P in VFP-61 c/s. |
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| 141363 Chance Vought RF-8G Crusader US NAVY GA/909 VFP-62 Squadron. w/o 18 July 1987 when with VFP-63. ?? |
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| 145445 Chance Vought F-8B Crusader US NAVY/MARINES 6A/11. SOC 29 July 1974. |
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| Ten Chance Vought F-8 Crusader aircraft, including 144614/CY MARINES VMCJ-2sq; 146845 US NAVY; RF-8G 144608 US NAVY Johnsville; 145425/6A; 145473/7W RAW-93sq; 143762/UA; 145488/7W RAW-93sq. |
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143190 Lockheed EC-121K Warning Star (4464) United States Navy AEWBARONPAC SH/23. Sold to Kolar Inc., 09 October 1974 and broken up.
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145842 Bell HTL-7/TH-13N US NAVY HT/22 HC-4 Squadron. To Pima Air & Space Museum.
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56-2159 Vertol H-21C Shawnee (C.321) US ARMY. To Pima Air & Space Museum now in 93rd Transportation Company, South Vietnam, 1962 markings.
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| 145221 McDonnell F-3BA Demon United States Navy VF-13 Squadron AK/104 USS Shangi-La. Note Tom in the distance, his shot below! Photo: Neil Aird © 09 September 1968 |
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| 145221 McDonnell F-3BA Demon United States Navy VF-13 Squadron AK/104 USS Shangi-La. Photo: Tom Baillie © 09 September 1968 |