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Stinson L-5 Sentinel 42-98225 – painted as 42-98667 [87] Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc A58-246 – painted as MA863, traded by the Imperial War Museum Duxford for a B-24 [88] [89] Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk.XI PA908 – painted as MB950 [90] Taylorcraft L-2M Grasshopper 43-26592 – painted as 43-26588 [91] Vultee BT-13 Valiant 42-90629 [92]
J-3 aircraft with CAP markings on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force An L-4A painted and marked to represent an aircraft that flew in support of the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942 A Piper Cub of the 1st Marine Division's improvised air force snags a message from a patrol on New Britain's north coast.
This list of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) includes prototype, pre-production and operational type designations under the 1919 and 1924 United States Army Air Service aircraft designation systems, which were used by the United States Air Force and its predecessors until the introduction of the unified United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system in 1962.
42-36200 – L-3B on static display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio. [17] [18] L-3D on display at the Silent Wings Museum. 42-36639 – L-3D on static display at the Silent Wings Museum at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock, Texas
Aerial view of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle on display in the museum's World War II Gallery. The Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 used as Air Force One by United States presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson (who was sworn into office on the plane), and Richard Nixon.
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.
46-159 – L-13A in storage at the United States Army Aviation Museum at Fort Novosel near Daleville, Alabama. [10] 47-275 – L-13A on display at the Arkansas Air and Military Museum in Fayetteville, Arkansas. [11] [12] 47-287 – L-13A in storage at the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California. [13] [14]
This versatile aircraft was first known as the Taylor Cub in 1930. Later as the Piper J-3 Cub it became the most prolific trainer in the world. There were 14,125 civilian built plus 5,703 for military use. The military version was known as "Grasshopper" and had the designation L-4 in the Army Air Corps and NE-1 in the Navy.