sherry@marchfield.org, Author at March Field Air Museum

MiG-23 Flogger

The Mig-23 came from the successful design bureau of Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Meant as a point defense fighter, the Flogger offered a powerful radar, an infrared search and […]

The Mig-21 came from the successful design bureau of Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. The MiG-21 Fishbed F is a short-range, supersonic, day fighter-interceptor and the first major production version […]

MiG-19 Farmer

This Soviet aircraft was first seen publicly in a formation of 48 in the 1955 Soviet Aviation Day fly-by. The MiG-l9 came from the successful design bureau of Artem Mikoyan […]

MiG-17 Fresco

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 is a swept-wing jet fighter first flown in 1950 and produced in the USSR from 1952. Operated by numerous air forces in many variants, licensed production was […]

MiG-15 Fagot

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 was a one of the most famous jet fighters of all time. Developed for the USSR by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich the MiG-15 was the first […]

FO-141 Gnat

Designed in the mid-1950s by W.E.W. Petter as a low-cost alternative to increasingly expensive and overly sophisticated military aircraft, the Gnat is a tiny, subsonic, single-seat, swept-wing fighter and trainer. […]

F-89J Scorpion

Designed by Northrop, the twin-engine dual cockpit F-89 Scorpion was an all-weather fighter-interceptor specifically for the Air Defense Command. With the radar operator in the rear seat guiding the pilot, […]

F-86L Sabre

A variant of the famous Korean War F-86 Sabre swept-wing, single seat, jetfighter, the F-86L is an improvement of the USAF F-86D Sabre all-weather fighter. Significantly different from earlier F-86 […]

F-86H Sabre

The United States Air Force’s first swept wing fighter, the North American F-86 Sabre, became an aviation legend in the hands of skilled US pilots in the hotly contested skies […]

F-86A North American

The United States Air Force’s first swept wing fighter the North American F-86 Sabre became an aviation legend in the hands of skilled US pilots in the hotly contested skies […]