Warbird Information Exchange

Attached is a selection of photos taken at the subject museum on 05 July 2015. This museum is located on the former site of McClelland AFB, CA. Due to the major drought in California the aircraft have not been washed for several years.


Douglas C-53D Skytrain. Note passenger door located on RH side of aircraft


Douglas C-54D Skymaster


LTV A-7D Corsair II


Provost T3


Piasecki H-21 "Flying Banana"


Convair VC-131


Lockheed RC-121 Warning Star



General Dynamics F-111



MiG-21


Lockheed TF-104 Starfighter


Republic F-105D Thunderchief


Convair F-102A


North American T-39 Sabreliner


North American T-28B Trojan


North American AT-6G Texan



McDonnell F-101B Voodoo


North American F-100 Super Sabre



Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II


Convair F-106A



Douglas A-1 Skyraider



McDonnell-Douglas F-4C Phantom



Lockheed F-80B Shooting Star



Republic F-84F Thunderstreak



North American F-86D Sabre


MiG-19


Beech UC-45J Expeditor


Grumman F-14D Tomcat



North American F-100 Super Sabre


Fairchild C-119 Packet


Grumman HU-16 Albatross


Grumman S-2 Tracker


Sikorsky HH-3


North American F-86F Sabre

Very nice photos! Thanks for sharing those with us.

Thanks for the great pics jdvoss. Looking at #22 I was once again reminded at just how amazed I am that there are no flyable examples of the P-80. Such a beautiful and historic aircraft.

CORRECTION: "TF-104" Photo

The F-104 aircraft pictured is mis-identified as a "TF-104". It's correct designation is "F-104B" and was a NASA aircraft.

"Old Timer's Disease" strikes again.


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Love the Selfridge F-4 and the C-54. Don't think I've seen pics from this museum before. Thank you for sharing!

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Matt

Kalamazoo Kid-

Thank you for your kind comment. The Sacramento area is a great anchor point for THREE fantastic air museums as follows:

a. Aerospace Museum (@ former McClelland AFB) in northern Sacramento (photo set above)
b. Jimmy Doolittle Museum (@ Travis AFB) located about 40 minutes west of Sacramento (see photo set of page 2 of Photo Gallery)
c. Castle Air Museum (@ former Castle AFB) located about 90 minutes south of Sacramento (see photo set on page 3 of Photo Gallery)

The Castle Air Museum has a very large collection of aircraft and the most complete bomber selection in the western USA (B-18, B-23, B-24, B-25, B-26, B-29, B-50, et.al. and a Vulcan too).

JV

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A few corrections are in order. 1) Despite the current water crisis, the aircraft shown in the excellent images presented here have been individually and regularly washed as California drought regulation circumstances permit. 2) The museum itself, formerly the McClellan AFB Aviation Museum, was in 2005 privatised and renamed the Aerospace Museum of California, residing on the McClellan Business park facility site, near the flightline in a new 7 million dollar facility (and directly adjacent to the Coast Guard Station Sacramento hangers) at the end of Freedom Park Drive in North Highlands; 3) The F-14 Tomcat is actually an 'A' model (not a D); 4) The museum's Starfighter is not a TF-104 (as has already been noted), but a rare F-104B model that was used exclusively as a Dryden Flight Research Center flight test & support aircraft from 1957 to about 1977 or so, before being replaced by a NASA TF-104 and donated to our museum. All that said, the images, which appear to have been taken at different times and not at the same time in 2015, are rather excellent. Thanks for sharing these fine images of our birds with the on-line warbird community! (I'm the museum's crewchief for our Convair F-106A 'Delta Dart' (59-0010, more familiarly known to us as 'Heathcliff')

One further correction: Our AMC 'F-86D' is actually an 'F-86L'. We have an 'Open Cockpit' event coming up on 6 February 2016, as part of the Sacramento-wide 'Museum Day' observance. Admittance to the Aerospace Museum of California (as with all Sacramento area museums) is free at that time and most of the aircraft shown in these above images will be open to the public to view and/or sit in. If you've ever wanted to sit in the cockpit of a McDonnell-Douglas F-4C Phantom II, that's your opportunity to get a real pilot's perspective on what it must have been like to fly the Mach-2 Phabulous Phantom.

I'm sure there must be a few ex-SAMA folks out there screaming, "McClellan!!!"