68-8158 with 68-8205 on the apron of Edwards AFB, California

To AMARC as May 29, 1992.

Official Boeing photo P 33495. Original caption reads: "…The 727, taxiing to a stop in the background, is due for airline service early in 1964. Testing at Edwards included landing performance and accelerated stops". Delivered to United 24 June 1964. Retired 1991 and used as ground trainer by San Francisco Community College from 1992 until scrapped in 2014.

The Fleetwings Model 36 was a plywood skinned aerial target which was given the military designation PQ-12A. It was powered by a Lycoming O-435 of 225 hp and could be manually flown for testing & evaluation when designated as the YPQ-12A (background). The protrusion hanging down from the right hand wing housed a TV camera that fed images to a mother-ship for remote guidance to intercept an enemy aircraft. In October 1943 the aircraft successfully downed a test drone over the Muroc Bombing and Gunnery Range by detonating a 500 lb bomb housed under the cockpit fairing. Note that the last two digits of the serial on the tail have been crudely changed from "49" to "45".

Shot from the Edwards' tower.

Retired to MASDC at Tucson in September 2008.

Shot from the Edwards tower upon return from a flight.

Ex RCAF 9227, SOC and registered as N10607 in August 1956. Owned at the time the photo was taken by Wiley Sanders of Troy, Alabama. Still active with a Nevada based owner at time of upload.

Loomis Dean apparently took this snapshot while he was at Edwards to photograph a Douglas X-3 Stiletto flight, which must have been between August 1954 and May 1956. The helo was delivered earlier in 1954. It was still with AFFTC in 1959 but its fate is unknown. Photo by: Loomis Dean / Life