KC-135A Stratotanker

Based on Boeing 707 airframe, the KC-135 was the first totally jet powered, in-flight refueling aircraft. The C-135 models have served in a number of roles: Air Force One, Electronic Warfare aircraft, Weather, Reconnaissance, Airborne Command Post and special purpose aircraft. The KC-135 is carries fuel in six wing and four fuselage tanks. All but […]

KC-10A  Extender

Designed by Boeing Aircraft as a modification of their DC-10 commercial airliner, the KC-10A Extender aerial re-fueler was intended as a replacement for the venerable KC-135 Strato-tanker. Accepted into the United States Air Force in 1981, the KC-10A shares 88% of its systems with the DC-10 with the added capability of specialized military avionics including […]

CT-39A Sabreliner

The CT-39 was based on the Rockwell Sabreliner 40 corporate-jet. The aircraft was intended to meet the USAF “UTX” requirement for an economical combat readiness trainer, a fast transport, and a utility aircraft.  Equipped with radar and LORAN navigational equipment the U.S. Air Force and Navy T-39’s were used as navigator and F-105 crew trainers. […]

C-54Q Skymaster / R5-D

The Douglas C-54 was the U.S. military version of the Douglas DC-4 airliner. The DC-4 had not yet entered commercial service when the United States Government commandeered the Douglas production line on December 5, 1941. Wartime expediency demanded speed or caution, no prototype was built, the first production aircraft made its first flight February 14, […]

C-45J Expediter

Beech Aircraft first introduced the Model 18 light, twin-engine, twin-tail, tail-dragger to the civilian market in late 1937. Originally a 6 to 11 place civilian executive transport, the aircraft became one of the most popular utility / cargo planes before WW 2 and a staple of civil transport after the war.  Powered by two Pratt […]

C-141B Starlifter

In over forty years of service, stretching from the jungles of Vietnam to thedeserts of the Persian Gulf, the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter the Air Force’s firstjet-powered, heavy-lift cargo aircraft has earned the title of Americas airliftworkhorse. A product of John F. Kennedy’s first official order as President, the C-141 was designed to be a fast, […]

C-131D Samaritan

The twin-engine, tricycle gear C-131D was a military transport version of the civilian Convair-Liner 340 built by General Dynamics. The first pressurized twin-engine air-evacuation, cargo, aircrew training and troop transport ordered by the U.S. Military Air Transport Service, it could carry 37 seated passengers or 27 stretchers. A standard integral stairway that folded into the […]

C-123K Provider

The C-123 is based on the airframe developed in 1945 by Chase Aircraft Co. of New Jersey. It was a 16-passenger troop-carrying glider of all wooden construction. First flown in 1945, it was towed by four-engine C-54 transports. In 1946, an all-metal, 32-seat troop cargo transport version was flown. After the Second World War the […]

C-119G Flying Boxcar

The C-119 Packet was designed late in World War II by North American Aviation as a medium-duty transport. The end of the war brought the cancellation of the North American contract. In 1947 Fairchild-Hiller picked-up the design and began to produce the aircraft, in a slightly modified form, for the new United States Air Force. […]

FB-111A Aardvark

Designed as a modification of the legendary General Dynamics variable–geometry “swing-wing” F-111 fighter-bomber, the FB-111A served in the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command from 1968 until 1991. Intended as a replacement for the B-58 Hustler and as an adjunct to the B-52 Stratofortress until a more advanced nuclear-armed manned bomber could be procured, […]