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Is the F-107 not on display anymore? I haven't been there since 2019, but it was under the XB-70 then.


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Is the F-107 not on display anymore? I haven't been there since 2019, but it was under the XB-70 then.


I was surprised to see that and the XF-91 in the video above. They were both on display last time I was there (also 2019) and there seemed to be plenty of room.

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I was surprised that ShooShooBaby wasn't there.

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So much good German stuff there...I wish they would let people visit that facility, I would pay to get in there.


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Last time I was able to visit around 1980-ish, you were allowed to walk around the storage as much as you wished.

They didn't have the main display a/c fenced off, either, so you could go under and around them and look at every inch.

It was a dream come true for this kid.


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The list below is stolen from a YouTube comment I made on the video:

Pictured Vehicles (in Rough Order of Appearance)
  • YQM-98
  • MiG-25RB, 020657
  • CASA 352L, T.2B‐244
  • Fi 156 C-1, 4389
  • NT-33A, 51-4120
  • XF-91, 46-0680
  • NF-16A, 75-0750
  • F-107A, 55-5119
  • YRF-84, 49-2430
  • GAM-63
  • AQM-34Q
  • EF-111A, 66-0057
  • T-33A, 51‐4286
  • CH-21B, 51-15857
  • AN/FPN-16
  • AN/CPN-4
  • YF-4E, 62‐12200
  • AN/MRN-12A, 13
  • Su-22M, 31203
  • AQM-60
  • CASA 2.111H, B.2I-29
  • TG-3, N6513
  • T-6G, 49-3217
  • H-5, 48‐539
  • S‐51, 51.22
  • X-19, 62-12198
  • La-17M
  • RB-34, AJ311
  • B-23A, 39-0037
  • C-39, 38-515
  • SA-2
  • T-46, 84-0493
  • C-21A, 84-0064

EDIT (22-06-15): Added identification of an additional aircraft.

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Isn't 51-6745 also a candidate for the dismantled T-33A?
And what about 41-17372 (ex Rantoul) for the T-6? : https://aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossie ... rial=13549


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There are some interesting Russian aircraft on this list.

Does anyone know the backstory on the Su-22? (The MiG-25 is fuselage only, recovered from Iraq)

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Interesting to see the B-23. It looks about the same as it did when I last saw it in the restoration shop in the mid-1990s. They were in the process of converting back to bomber configuration, but the project was apparently abandoned and the plane disappeared into storage. I think they were incorporating the tail gun station and other parts salvaged from the Loon Lake wreck.

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Here is some information on the NMUSAF Su-22M: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197989/sukhoi-su-22m4/; came from Germany in 2003.

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Pat Carry wrote:
I was surprised that ShooShooBaby wasn't there.

Based on the tour I did 5 or 6 years ago I think Shoo Shoo Baby is in the adjacent hangar to this one where the museum had the Belle during restoration. Such a shame the museum can't display both restored B-17s until the Smithsonian is ready for Shoo Shoo.


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Andy Marden wrote:
Isn't 51-6745 also a candidate for the dismantled T-33A?

You can read most of the serial number (4286) off of the vertical stabilizer if you look closely at 2:05 in the video. The only one that it matches in the list of airframes on loan is the T-33 that had been at the Imperial War Museum.
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And what about 41-17372 (ex Rantoul) for the T-6? : https://aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossie ... rial=13549

The cowling on the one from Rantoul is only half painted red. Both the one from Warner Robins (49-3217) and the one in the video are painted completely red. However, you could be on to something. The one from Warner Robins has yellow painted between the red stripes on the fuselage and the one in the video does not appear to. Also, the most recent images from the Aerial Visuals dossier for the one from Rantoul are 8 years out of date. Unfortunately, the way the video is shot, most of the other identifying details are obscured by either shadows or the neighboring airframes.

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Thanks for the note.
Your computer must have better definition than mine as I can't make out the serial of the T-33, but 14286 certainly fits. It was at Robins for a while after arriving from the UK.


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Looks like this one to me, same vertical stripes, "D" canopies. My guess is the post-war stars & bars on fuselage are a decal while the wings have the round star only. S/N in correct location as well.
https://aerialvisuals.ca/AirframePhotoV ... rial=20128
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Stripes are located in wrong position as is the S/N, "G" canopies and has raised ADF panel on aft fuselage.
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