This VC-13 'Saints' A-4 is on display at the very nice Hickory Aviation Museum.

F-4J Phantom of VF-103 Squadron, "Sluggers" attached to Carrier Wing CVW-3, tail code 'AC', aboard USS Saratoga. However, in this September 1974 image, the Squadron is seen temporarily deployed on USS America, CVA-66, during a courtesy visit to Portsmouth, England.

521119 was the serial used by the USN when this aircraft was on loan from the USAF (ex 52-1119). It reverted to its USAF serial when sent to storage.

This Crusader was originally built as a F-8D and delivered to VMF(AW)-451 as VM-5 in 1962 and subsequently upgraded to H-standard around 1967. It was retired to AMARC in February 1976 and sold two years later to the Philippine AF for spare parts. It is currently preserved at Fighting Classics of Marana but deceptively carries the rudder of 147078.

Written off a month later during a Search and Rescue mission in the Cascade Mountains.

Project Magnet

A busy day at PIK

An ex-Marines C-130, now with the US Navy.

Derived from the B-24 / PB4Y-1 Liberator, the Privateer was a dedicated maritime patrol aircraft with a single tailfin. 739 Privateers were delivered to the US Navy from late 1944. Photo from: US Navy - National Naval Aviation Museum

Aboard the USS Kittyhawk off the coast of Western Australia.

Registered N54281 in 1990 apparently in preparation for a ferry flight to a museum but reported to have been scrapped instead.

An early S-55, delivered in April 1951. To NACA in 1953. Seen here with an X-15 drop model. Later to N4781S. Photo from: NASA

To Indiana Museum of Military History as N4619N in 1984. Reregistered N14835 in 1985. Converted to an air tanker and lost while firebombing at Reserve, New Mexico on June 27, 1998.

The Cutlass was cutting edge technology. This airframe spent the summer of 1955 at NACA Ames for testing. Photo from: NASA

At the Avalon Airshow 2007

A Black Lions F-14D during its landing at the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf (or Arabian Sea). Fighter Squadron (VF) 213 was busy at that time with their final cruise with the F-14 Tomcat.

Lockheed's experimental VTOL project. Two were built, but the design never managed vertical take-off. The project was cancelled in 1955, leaving the second aircraft (138658) incomplete without an engine. The flying prototype 138657 was donated to Hiller Aircraft for further VTOL testing, but its fate is unclear. Reliable sources say that only parts (engine and props) of this aircraft survived these tests, others say it is the aircraft that went on display in Florida in the mid 1990s, and that for reasons unknown it was painted as 138658...
Note: this design is often quoted as "XFV-1 Salmon", but it was in fact unnamed. Salmon was the name of Lockheed's test pilot for the project. Photo from: Library of Congress