On display at Florida Air Museum. This experimental VTOL aircraft was one of two prototypes built to a USN proposal to launch fighters from the afterdeck of ships. The XFV-1 was powered by a 5,850 hp Allison YT40-A-6 turboprop driving a pair of 16 ft. contra-rotating propellers. The design featured a cruciform tail with wheels mounted on struts. Called the Salmon after chief engineering test pilot Herman "Fish" Salmon, single flying prototype BuNo 138657 never achieved VTOL due to insufficient power. Fitted with a spindly fixed undercarriage, the XFV-1 was flown horizontally and held in hover.

Aircraft 160678, with VF-111 "Sundowners" aboard USS Carl Vinson, CVW-15 NL-212 Pilot Lt. Dave Inman "BULK", REO Lt. Pointek "Pontiac".

Visited from Sigonella to take part in the flying display; returned to Sigonella.

'Wizards' EA-6B arriving for the 07' Pt Mugu show

Taken during a Red Flag launch which I will assume was RF 07-1

VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet classic Hornet.

VX-9 Vampires Super Hornet came in for a short fuel stop.

Ex Bu33559. Built under license by the Columbia Aircraft Corporation in 1945. Registered as N3960C in 1948. Kept in airworthy condition by Erickson, previously with the Tillamook Air Museum.

Stored at Sam's yard.

VX-9 Vampires Super Hornet coming into town.

This old E-2B, that once operated from the USS Midway, forward deployed in Japan, was placed in storage at AMARC on 25 October 1985. It received invenroy code 2E0016. The Hawkeye was temporarely placed in the so-called 'celebrity row' at the storage depot. This row showed one of each aircraft type of the storage depot. 152497 was reported als sold to the Republic of China Air Force (RoCAF, Taiwan Air Force) but was never delivered. Possibly it was only cannibalized for RoCAF parts. It was moved to Consolidated/UAC in Tucson (AZ) on 26 March 1999 and then scrapped.

Arrived from homebase NAS Miramar (CA) on 28 April 1986 at Davis Monthan for storage at AMARC. Apparently it took some time to drag it to its parking spot as this picture was made over year after its arrival at AMARC. After a long period in the desert, the Phantom was moved to HVF West, Tucson (AZ) for scrap on 30 December 2008.

P-3A 161359, former Patrol Squadron 94, stored at AMARC in September 1987. The Orion received inventory code 2P024, and was later sold to Aero Union as N924AU. It was written off on 17 October 1991 during a repositioning flight from Santa Barbara (CA) to Missoula (MT) in support of a forest fire suppression effort in Montana. During a landing attempt at Missoula, the airtanker had disappeared off Misoullas radar screen. The aircraft was found on 18 October, sadly the two crew perished in the accident.

This Tomcat is painted to represent BuNo 160403, which was one of two VF-41 Black aces F-14s from USS Nimitz involved in shooting down two Libyan Su-22 "Fitters" over the Gulf of Sidra. This happened early in the Reagan presidency and so this F-14 is on display at Reagan Library to commemorate the event. In reality this is BuNo 162592, which was delivered to the Navy in January 1986 and served with VF-1, VF-21, VF-154, and finally the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (formally TopGun).

Arriving from Sigonella as Convoy 3917.