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The RB-57D remained in service for only about five years. The first deliveries were in April 1956 to the 4025th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, which was a part of Strategic Air Command (SAC). Initially, the planes were to be based at Lockbourne AFB, Ohio, but they were soon relocated to Turner AFB, Georgia.
North American F-6C (P-51C-5-NT) Mustang Serial 42-103368 of the 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 10th Reconnaissance Group at Saint-Dizier Airfield, France, Autumn 1944. This aircraft was flown by Captain John H. Hoefler, who used it to shoot down three enemy aircraft in June 1944.
Two such aircraft were assigned to the United States Pacific Fleet, operated by VP-4. (CINCPAC Command History 1973, 254, 281/818 at Nautilus) Operation Chrome Dome – Strategic Air Command airborne alert indoctrination training. Cobra – Headquarters USAF First word code name programs Cobra Ball – Boeing RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft
O-57 Grasshopper at the National Museum of the United States Air Force A de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI (F-8) of the 654th BS, Eighth Air Force at RAF Watton, 1944 North American B-25D (F-10) Mitchell photographic reconnaissance and mapping aircraft North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (F-6C) Serial No 42-103368 of the 15th TRS at St. Dizler Airfield, France, Autumn 1944.
Company First HQ Location Aircraft operated Years active Groups assigned to Designation Notes 1st Aviation Company: Thailand Vung Tau: 1962-63 [1] 3rd Aviation Company: Fort Benning: 1957-1963 1964 1971-72: 4th Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment. [2] [1] 4th Aviation Company: Fort Lewis: 1957-1963: 4th Aviation Regiment. [3] 10th Aviation Company ...
Maj. Charles Carpenter strapped six bazookas onto the wings of his 800-pound reconnaissance plane made of cloth over a frame of welded steel and wood – and used those weapons to take out German ...
Phaseout of the RB-47E began in October 1957, but the aircraft remained in service for another decade, with the last SAC B-47, a RB-47H (53-4296) of the 55th SRW was flown to Davis Monthan AFB for storage on 29 December 1967. These models were replaced with the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft. [1]
The Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor is a two or three-seat, fixed gear, low wing, twin boom covert reconnaissance aircraft. [6] [7] RU-38 is the US military designation for the aircraft, indicating Utility, Reconnaissance. The Schweizer company model number is Schweizer SA 2-38A Condor and, in its three-seat configuration, Schweizer SA 3-38A Condor [8]