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Former Air Force aircraft, acquired in return for the release of seven HC-130H aircraft to the United States Forest Service for use as aerial tankers. [citation needed] C-37A: Gulfstream USA Jet VIP transport Manned 1997 [citation needed] 1 [citation needed] VIP transport for high-ranking members of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S ...
MH-139 Grey Wolf: Italy utility: MH-139: 79 aircraft (maximum number of aircraft planned for deployment) Of these, 4 are deployed and the remaining 75 are on order. [4] UH-1N Iroquois: United States utility 63 63 UH-1N total force as of September 2023 (USAF Almanac). [1] 64 UH-1N operational (WAF 2025). [2] V-22 Osprey: United States CSAR CV ...
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531 (VMFA-531) was a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron consisting of various types aircraft from its inception culminating with the F/A-18 Hornet. Known as the "Grey Ghosts", the squadron participated in action during World War II and the Vietnam War. They were decommissioned on 27 March 1992.
The US company McDonnell Aircraft received a request in 1942 for a jet fighter which could be operated from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. The eventual result was the FH-1 Phantom, a twin-engined craft that was only moderately faster than the best propeller fighters of the time. The Navy ordered 100 planes (only 60 were actually built), and the ...
North American B-45C Tornado 48-0010 [101] North American F-82B Twin Mustang 44‐65162 – configured as an F-82G [102] North American L-17A Navion 47‐1347 [103] North American F-86A Sabre 49-1067 – painted as 91236 [104] North American T-6D Mosquito 42-84216 – forward air control version of T-6 Texan trainer [105] Republic F-84E ...
About 100 planes around the world have been caught up in a scandal that would be cartoonish if it weren’t so terrifying. It saw a dubious company, with fake employees and an address that was a ...
By mid-1916 a silver-grey aluminium dope became the norm for Nieuports until the French introduced a standardized disruptive camouflage scheme for combat aircraft in 1917. This was used widely on such aircraft as the Breguet XIV and SPAD XIII that consisted of dark and light green, dark and light brown, black (sometimes omitted) and an ...
Since January 2014, following the merger of US Airways with American Airlines, all US Airways aircraft, except for the heritage A319s and A321 noted below, were painted in American's livery. The first jet to re-enter revenue service was an Airbus A319, tail number N700UW, which previously sported a Star Alliance branding.