Serving VAW-124 at the time, interestingly this Hawkeye ended up with the US Coast Guard as 3502 before entering AMARC in 2.93 where it remains

There are plenty of images on the internet of an F-4 in the Speyer museum pretending to be 153072, but this is the real Blue Angels ship #1 and was only the second production F-4J. Written off in a collision with 153081 (ship #4) at NAS Lakehurst, NJ on 26.7.73 - just two months after this photo - during a practice session

Hot machine, cool dudes. Seen here in the smart colours of VF-142 but last served VF-14 before retirement in 1992. After taking a long vacation in the sun at DM, this fabulous looking aircraft was scrapped in 2008

Ah, the colourful days of the USN... the last USN Tracker squadron, VS-37, was disestablished in 1976 when the S-3A Viking took over the ASW role. 152806 was one of their aircraft and arrived at MASDC in 2.75 and seemingly has since been broken up like so many others

Last serving VP-69, earlier units included VP-65 'PG' and NARTU North Island '6H'. Arrived MASDC 2.75 and out to Bob's Air Park 8.87 for eventual reduction to spares

Conceived as a high-altitude Mach 2 carrier nuclear bomber, the big and complex Vigilante served mainly as a reconnaissance aircraft.

An unusual overnight visitor in Sydney's GA park.

Unit: VS-38. USS Bennington. 152333 sold to the Royal Australian Navy in 1977 as N12-152333. Later VH-NVX with Navy's historic flight. At Garden Island Naval Base.

One of the first exhibits at Seattle's Museum of Flight.

Unveiled just a couple of days earlier, the Tomcat aboard the museum carrier Yorktown sports a fresh coat of paint.

Personal helicoper of the Commander, US Seventh Fleet. Sold as N694CC.

Unit: VXE-6. Famously the C-130 repaired and reflown 17 years after an accident in Antarctica. Picture taken the year before the accident.

Project Magnet. Aircraft retired in 1972 and later scrapped

Based Sangley Point, the Philippines

Weathering the storm.

Not having managed a good photo of a Greyhound at NAS Norfolk, I was delighted to see this example turning up for some circuits here at CGAS Elizabeth City during our base visit.

The E-1 Tracer was the airborne early warning variant of the S-2 Tracker. Preserved on the USS Yorktown.

Actually Serial no 1 of the French Navy in fictitious marks

An experimental VTOL aircraft, intended to take off and land as seen here. The identity of this aircraft is uncertain. Most say that it is the first prototype 138657, mysteriously painted as 138658. But reliable sources state that only parts (engine and props) of 138657 survived testing by Hiller Aircraft in the late 1950s. The second prototype 138658, left incomplete and without an engine when the design project was cancelled, went on display at NAS Los Alamitos and later at NOLF Imperial Beach until it disappeared in the early 1990s. Then in the mid 1990s the aircraft in this photo suddenly popped up in Florida. It seems likely then that this is in fact the real 138658 (with the props from 138657) and that it was painted correctly.