Stored on the south side of Edwards

Photographer David F. Brown - delivered as third of six YF-16A and later modified as one of the two F-16XL/B with cranked-arrow wing. - Assigned to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, CA, Feb 1991 to Oct 1996. Registered as NASA 848.

Ex Luftwaffe RF-104G 24+64. This Starfighter arrived at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on 2 July 1975 and remained in service up to October 1993. It is now preserved at Edwards.

T-38A 65-10353 became N911NA with NASA Johnson on 10 February 1966. It became N821NA and arrived at NASA Dryden at 28 September 1972. It was converted to T-38N in early 1988. Later transferred to NASA Johnson Space Center on 12 October 1994. Reregistered to N967NA in early 1995.

This weird looking x-wing was delivered to Dryden as N805NA with code NASA 838 on 12 March 1979. The Lockheed Folding Wing was on and off active and stored at Dryden but eventually withdrawn from use and transferred to the NASA Ames Research Center museum in February 1998.

This Starfighter was factory-fresh handed over to NASA on 19 July 1963. It arrived at Dryden on 19 August 1963. It stayed operational up to 1990, was stored at Edwards until October 1992 and was then preserved at the visitors center of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott (AZ)

First flown in 1967, became N8351Y and was assigned to NASA Dryden's Research Operations Division for Program Support on 5 June 1967. The Piper was among other missions, used for validating remotely piloted research vehicles in addition to research into General Aviation aircraft. It was withdrawn from use and popped up as an instructional airframe at Reedley (CA) Aviation Maintenance Technology Dept at Reedley College on 19 May 1995.

Former USAF 65-10357, delivered to NASA Ames in December 1972, did not receive a NASA registration as it was assigned to NASA Dryden on 16 March 1973. Reregistered to N915NA at NASA Ames on 22 January 1990, and later to N722NA and N717NA at Ames, converted to T-38N in October 1997 and delivered to NASA Johnson as N966NA.

NASA's FAST (Full-Scale Advanced Systems Testbed) F/A-18A taxis to runway 22 for departure

Beautiful NASA GII departing off of runway 22L

The F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with beautiful cranked-arrow delta wing. The type entered the USAF Enhanced Tactical Fighter (ETF) competition in 1981 but it sadly lost to the F-15E Strike Eagle. Both prototypes were shelved until being turned over to NASA for additional aeronautical research in 1988. The duo was eventually fully retired in 2009 and stored at Edwards AFB (CA).

An early F/A-18A (fiscal year 1981, Block 8), once a proud US MArine Corps aircraft (VW-000 and soon after VW-03 of VMFA-314 in early 1983, then moved to the US Navy with VFA-113 and then assigned to the Naval Warfare Center in 1989. It also served the Pacific Missile Test Center and later the Naval Air Warfare Center - Weapons Division at Point Mugu with code 61 The Hornet was moved to Edwards in March 1993 where it was assigned to NASA Dryden as NASA 851. The registration N851NA is pure administrative and is not carried as the aircraft remained on loan from the US Navy.

First two-seater F-15 produced; on loan to NASA from the USAF. At the time known as the F-15 ACTIVE - Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles (a program that runned from 1993-1999).

This Fiscal Year 1979 F/A-18B (Block 4) was delivered to the US Navy on 9 March 1981. It first served VFA-125 (NJ-521 and later NJ-501) and was then transferred as XF-27 with VX-4 in mid-1983. It was temporary assigned to NAWC-AD at Warminster before the jet was moved to NASA Dryden. It arrived there in mid-1995 and received 852 as a code on 7 September 1996. It assigned theoretical registration N852NA was not seen on the aircraft when it participated in the Edwards airshow.

First flight 1966, this Learjet was a true oldy! It is former an ASSESS airborne telescope aircraft. and served this laboratory from 1973 onwards. The 24A was then delivered NASA Ames (N702NA) where it was registered on 10 Jun'74. It was moved to Dryden on 9 Feb'98 as N805NA. The jet was sadly lost in an accident on 7 Jun'01 during a hard landing at Victorville (CA). The 24A was under control of the co-pilot who disengaged the yaw damper and entered a pilot induced lateral oscillation. The airplane rapidly decelerated and developed a high sink rate. It bounced several times and came to rest.

This 1976 YF-18A is the 6th McDonnell Douglas built single seat prototype and was delivered to the US Navy on 31 Jan'80 with code 6 to the Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River (MD). It served the NATC up to 22 Oct'84 when it was transferred to NASA. Initially it carried its BuNo and "NASA 840", in 1985 it received registration N840NA. The Hornet was used from 1987-1996 as a High Alpha Research Vehicle with thrust-vectoring vanes, research flight control system and forward fuselage strakes. Since 2003 it is preserved at the Virginia Air & Space, Hampton (VA). Here pictured at Dryden FRC.

This fiscal year 1979 Hornet was delivered to the US Navy on 11 June 1980. The aircraft was transferred to NASA in 1987 and received NASA 844 on its tail (as pictured). It did not receive a NASA N-registration. It is not clear if the aircraft ever received or carried the N844NA registration. The twelfth Hornet and the tenth single seater built did not serve NASA for a long time as it crashed three miles north of Boron (CA) on 7 October 1988. It is here pictured at a Edwards AFB ramp, outside the NASA Dryden facility.

NASA HL-10 on display inside the main hangar at the 82' Edwards show