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The museum has several rare aircraft among its collection, including the second Northrop YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) 5th generation stealth fighter demonstrator. Also on display is the first Northrop YF-17 Cobra, a lightweight fighter which was the basis for the Boeing (originally McDonnell-Douglas ) F/A-18 Hornet currently used by ...
YF-23 "Gray Ghost" on display at the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 2023 YF-23 "Spider" on display at the Western Museum of Flight, 2017. YF-23A PAV-2, AF ser. no. 87-0801, "Spider", registration number N232YF, was on exhibit at the Western Museum of Flight until 2004, [75] when it was reclaimed by Northrop Grumman and used as ...
The retired plane, used from 1959 to 1996, is on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. President Dwight Eisenhower became the first US president to travel by jet when he flew on a new Air ...
Santa Maria Museum of Flight, Santa Maria; Space and Missile Heritage Center, Vandenberg Space Force Base; Stockton Field Aviation Museum, Stockton [43] Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum, Fairfield; USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum, Alameda; USS Midway Museum, San Diego; Warbirds West Air Museum, El Cajon – closed [44] Western Museum of ...
Martin Model 139WAA – export version of B-10 bomber, painted in Air Corps livery [23] Nieuport 28 C.1 [24] North American NA-64 – painted as a North American BT-9 or BT-14 [25] North American O-47B 39-112 [26] Northrop A-17 36-207 [27] Packard-Le Pere LUSAC-11 [28] Sopwith Camel – reproduction [29] SPAD VII 94099 [30] SPAD XIII 16594 [31 ...
The Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) was a program undertaken by the United States Air Force to develop a next-generation air superiority fighter to replace the F-15 Eagle in order to counter emerging worldwide threats in the 1980s, including Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 and Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters under development, Beriev A-50 airborne warning and control systems (AWACS), and increasingly ...
A 2019 audit found Western Heights administrators used $8.8 million in 2018 bond funds to repay 2009 and 2013 bonds. A 2020 audit showed the district's financial reports often were late and incorrect.
The YF-22 and YF-23 in formation during flight testing in the early 1990s The squadron was first activated as the 6511th Test Squadron in March 1989 to conduct the Advanced Tactical Fighter program. It began flying the Northrop YF-23 on 27 August and the Lockheed YF-22 on 29 September 1990, flying both through December 1990, though the ...