Mon Mar 25, 2019 10:15 am
Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:05 am
SpairParts wrote:Is anyone restoring to flight or currently operating the F-106?
Mon Mar 25, 2019 2:33 pm
Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:38 am
Clifford Bossie wrote:SpairParts wrote:Is anyone restoring to flight or currently operating the F-106?
Good question. The ones stored in El Paso have all been trucked away to destinations unknown to me. Those were the most viable airframes.
Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:39 am
Clifford Bossie wrote:SpairParts wrote:Is anyone restoring to flight or currently operating the F-106?
Good question. The ones stored in El Paso have all been trucked away to destinations unknown to me. Those were the most viable airframes.
Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:39 am
Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:56 pm
Joe Scheil wrote:And a MiG-23!
As to Century Series Jets in Airworthy and regularly flying condition we only have a few survivors...
F-100F - Collings Foundation, Cutshall Collection and perhaps one other. No current D models flying though some stored.
F-101- no flying examples, and no chance of any...
F-102. - none...and no chance of any. Perhaps a good thing considering the runway and safety requirements of the Delta Dart!
F-104 - healthy small population in Florida....the ultimate airplane ride. TF-104 variants mostly.
F-105. Sadly none. The most historic of the fighters from a warbird point of view. There was a chance till rouge elements from the USAFM or USAF had all the engines “spiked” to prevent this from ever happening. Ever.
F-106 - no more after the Texas population was dispersed. The fastest production single engined aircraft ever I think...
F-107. - all state owned. No
Technical mention:
F-110. - just one...the Collings Foundation in the USA. JASDF takes them out of service I believe this year. Possibly Turkey and Greece still fly them too...
Stretching the boundary of the century series...
F-111....all finished.
F-117. Secretly several flying at the Groom Lake facility...
Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:12 pm
sandiego89 wrote:Joe Scheil wrote:And a MiG-23!
As to Century Series Jets in Airworthy and regularly flying condition we only have a few survivors...
F-100F - Collings Foundation, Cutshall Collection and perhaps one other. No current D models flying though some stored.
F-101- no flying examples, and no chance of any...
F-102. - none...and no chance of any. Perhaps a good thing considering the runway and safety requirements of the Delta Dart!
F-104 - healthy small population in Florida....the ultimate airplane ride. TF-104 variants mostly.
F-105. Sadly none. The most historic of the fighters from a warbird point of view. There was a chance till rouge elements from the USAFM or USAF had all the engines “spiked” to prevent this from ever happening. Ever.
F-106 - no more after the Texas population was dispersed. The fastest production single engined aircraft ever I think...
F-107. - all state owned. No
Technical mention:
F-110. - just one...the Collings Foundation in the USA. JASDF takes them out of service I believe this year. Possibly Turkey and Greece still fly them too...
Stretching the boundary of the century series...
F-111....all finished.
F-117. Secretly several flying at the Groom Lake facility...
As for the F-110, better known as the F-4, add Iran. Somewhat ironically I would not be surprised to see Iran as the last military operator of the F-4 Phantom.
There is an early F-4H project that was for sale! https://www.platinumfighters.com/phantom2
F-117 more likely operating from Tonapah, not too far from Groom.
Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:39 pm
Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:09 pm
Ryan Harris wrote:The F-117 is definitely operating from Tonapah, and not very secretively either. At least one airframe was filmed in Death Valley in broad daylight a couple of days in a row, just two weeks ago.
Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:08 pm
Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:42 pm
Joe Scheil wrote:F-106 - no more after the Texas population was dispersed. The fastest production single engined aircraft ever I think...
Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:54 pm
Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:35 pm
Joe Scheil wrote:As to Century Series Jets in Airworthy and regularly flying condition we only have a few survivors...
F-104 - healthy small population in Florida....the ultimate airplane ride. TF-104 variants mostly.
Wed Mar 27, 2019 5:38 pm