USAF Aircraft in Service 1947 - Present


USAF Air Lift / Cargo Aircraft

 

USAF - C-47  Skytrain                                                                     USAF - C-54 Skymaster

 

USAF - C-69 - Super Constellation

 

USAF - C-97 Stratofreighter

 

USAF - C-97 Stratofreighter with Additional Jet Engines

 

    

USAF - C-119  Flying Boxcar                                                          USAF - C-123 Provider   

 

   

USAF - C-124 Globemaster                                                     USAF - EC-130A-J Hercules

 

USAF - C-131  Samaritan

 

USAF - C-133 Cargomaster

 

USAF - C-135 StratoLifter

USAF - C-7A Caribou

 

   

USAF - C-141 Star Lifter

USAF - C-9A Nightgale

 

   

USAF - C-5 Galaxy                                                                  USAF - C-17 Globemaster III

 


USAF  Rescue and Recovery Aircraft

 

USAF  PBY-5 - Catalina Flying Boat- 1936 - 4051 Built for All Service Branches
In service till late 1950's !

 

USAF  HU-16B - Albatross - 1949 - 466 Built for All Service Branches
In service till late 1970's !

 

USAF  HH-43 - Huskie - 1948 - 200+ - In service till late 1970's

 

Over Vietnam

USAF  H-21 - Shawnee - 1949 - 185 Built - In service till 1967
!

USAF  CH-3/C/E - Jolly Green Giant- 1959 - 120 Built - In service till 1990's !

 

USAF  HH-53J - Super Jolly Green Giant - 1966 - 72 Built - Retired 2008?

 

USAF  HH-60G - Pave Hawk - 1990 - 111 Built

 

USAF  HH-47G - Chinook- 2006 - 141 will be Built for USAF

 

USAF  CV-22 - Osprey- 2006 - 50 will be Built for USAF & 408 for other Service Branches

 

 


USAF  Fighter Aircraft

 

USAF  P-47 - Thunderbolt - 1942 - 15,686 Built - In service till 1955 !

 

USAF P-51  - Mustang - 1942 - 15,875 Built - In service till 1984 !

 

 

USAF P-61 - Black Widow- 1944 - 742 Built

 

USAF  A-1E - Skyraider - 1945  - 3,180 Built - In service till 1970s!

 

USAF F-82  - Twin Mustang - 1946 - 270 Built  

 

                             

USAF - F-84 - Thunderjet-  1946 - 7,524 Built                                   USAF F-86  - Sabre - 1949 - 9,860 Built        

 

USAF F-89  - Scorpion - 1950 - 1,050 Built - In service till 1969 !

 

USAF F-94  - Starfire - 1950 - 855 - Built - In service till 1960 !  

 

     

USAF  F-100 Sabrejet - 1953 - 2,294 Built                                    USAF  F-101  Voodoo - 1957 - 807 Built

 

    

USAF  F-102 - Delta Dagger  - 1953 - 1000 Built                        USAF  F-104 - Star Fighter - 1958 - 2578 Built

 

         

USAF  F-105 - Thunderchief  - 1958 - 833 Built                           USAF  F-106 - Delta Dart - 1959 - 340 Built

 

       

USAF F-107 - Super Super Sabre  - 1955 - 3 Built                 USAF XF-108 - Rapier - 1958 - 1 Mockup Built

 

USAF   F-4 - Phantom II  - 1960 - 5,195  Built - 1958-1981

 

USAF F-5A/B/C - Freedom Fighter - 1962 - 836  Built
USAF  F-5E/F - Tiger II - 1972 - 1400+ Built

 

USAF F-111  - Aardvark - 1967 - 563 Built

 

USAF  A-37 - Dragonfly - 1967 - 577  Built - In service till late 1980's !

 

USAF F-15A-D - Eagle - 1976 - 1100 + Built

 

USAF A-10  - Thunderbolt II -  "Wart Hog" - 1977 - 715 Built

 

The Tank Killer 30 MM Gun on the A-10

 

USAF F-16 - Fighting Falcons - 1978 - Over 4,400 Built

 

USAF F-117 - NightHawk - 1st Stealth Fighter - 1983 - Retired 2008 - 64 Built
Replaced by the USAF F-22 - Raptor
s- 2nd Stealth Fighter - 2005

 

USAF F-15E - Strike Eagle - 1988 - 340+ Built

 

USAF F-22 - Raptors- 2nd Stealth Fighter - 2005 - 135 Built as of Feb 2009

 

USAF F-35 - Ligthning IIs- 3rd Stealth Fighter - 2006 - 13 Test Planes built, 14 on Order

 


 

USAF Bomber Aircraft

USAF B-17 - Flying Fortress - 1938 - 12,731 Built

 

     

USAF B-24 - Liberator - 1941 - 18,482 Built     USAF B-25 - Mitchell - 1941 - 9,984 Built

 

USAF B-29 -  Super Fortress  - 1944 - 3,970 Built

 

              

USAF B-36 - Peace Maker - 1949 - 384 Built         USAF B-47 - StratoJet - 1951 - 2,032 Built
 420 mph - In service till 1959 !                                          607 mph - In service till 1969 !

 

USAF XB-49 - Flying Wing - 1949 - 3 Built

 

USAF B-50 - Superfortresss - 1949 - 371 Built
350 mph - In service till 1965!


 

   

USAF B-52 - Stratofortresss - 1952 - 650 mph - 744 Aircraft were built, Production ended in 1962

 

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Many B-52's were destroyed per the terms of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
(START). AMARG was tasked with eliminating 365 B-52 bombers. The progress of this task was to be verified by
Russia via satellite and first-person inspection at the AMARG facility. Initially, the B-52s were chopped into pieces with a 13,000 pound guillotine.

 

Retired B-52's sit at the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan AFB near Tucson, Arizona

 

In 1991, B-52s ceased continuous 24-hour SAC alert duty

94 Aircraft are still in Service today and planned to be used till 2040.

On 16 February 1991 a flight of B-52Gs launching from and returning to Barksdale AFB, in Louisiana, struck
targets inside Iraq. This was at the time the longest distance combat mission in history,
35 hours and 14,000 statute miles round trip !

 

USAF B-52 - Stratofortresss - Over Iraq  1991

 

USAF B-52 - Lower Deck

 

Taking off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam

>>>>>  Link About a  B-52 that Lost it's Tail ..Very Interesting  <<<<<

 

USAF B-57 - Camberra- 1954 - 598 mph - 403 Built - In service till 1971 !

 

          

USAF B-58 - Hustler - 1960 - Mach 2.1, 1400 mph - 116 Built - In service till 1970 !

 

USAF B-66- Destroyer - 1956 - 294 Built - 631 mph - In service till 1973 !

 

USAF XB-70  - Valkyrie - 1964 - 3.1 mach 2,056 mph - Only 2 Built

 

 

USAF XB-70  - Valkyrie - 1964 - Mach 3 Plus - Only 2 Built - Never put into service.

 

   

USAF B-1 - Lancer - 1974- Mach 1.25  830 mph- 104 Built

 

The USAF B-1B  Going Supersonic

 

USAF B-2  - Spirit "Stealth Bomber"  -  604 mph - 1989 -  Only 21 Built


 

USAF  Gunship Aircraft

 

USAF  AC-47 - Spooky  - 1965 - Unknown number Built

 

USAF AC-117G/K  - Shadow/Stringer- 1958 -  52 Built

 

USAF AC-130A/U - Spectre/Spooky- 1968/1995 -  43 Built

 


USAF  Air Refueling Aircraft

 

USAF KB-29 - Strategic Tanker - 1948 -  282 Built

 

USAF KC-50J -Tanker - 1960's -  F-100, F-101 & B-66 Being Refueled

 

USAF KC97- Stratotanker - 1950 -  816 Built

 

USAF KC-135A - StratoTanker - 1957-1965 -  803 Built

 

USAF KC-135R - StratoTanker - With New CFM-56 Turbofans

 

USAF KC-135R - A View from the Boom Operator's Window

 

USAF KC-10 - Extender - 1981 - 64 Built

 

USAF KC-45

The NNorthrop Grumman/EADS KC-45 was a proposed aerial refueling tanker aircraft based on the
Airbus A330 MRTT (KC-30), a derivative of the civil A330-200. The United States Air Force had
ordered 179 KC-45As in the first stage of replacing the aging KC-135 tankers currently in service.
However, the contest was reopened in July 2008, after Boeing's protest of the award was upheld.


In September 2008, the KC-X solicitation was Canceled.

A new competition between the KC-45 and KC-767 (or possibly the KC-777, a 777 derivative which
had been considered previously) will be opened sometime in 2009.

 

 


 

USAF  Reconnaissance Aircraft

 

USAF F15A- Reporter - 1946 - 36 Built

 

USAF - EC-121 - Warning Star - 1954 - 232 Built - In Service till 1978 !

 

USAF U-2 - Dragon Lady - 1957 -  86 Built

 

 

 

USAF SR-71 - Blackbird - 1966 -  32 Built

 

USAF SR-71 - Blackbird - High Flying

 

USAF SR-71 - Blackbird - NASA Aircraft

Records - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The SR-71 remained the world's fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft throughout its career.
From an altitude of 80,000 ft (24 km), it could survey 100,000 square miles (260,000 km2) per hour
 (72 square kilometers per second) of the Earth's surface. In addition, it was accurate enough to take
a picture of a car's license plate from this altitude. On 28 July 1976, an SR-71 broke the world record for
its class: an absolute speed record of 1905.81 knots (2,193.17 mph, 3,529.56 km/h), and an "absolute altitude record"
of 85,069 feet (25,929 m). Several aircraft exceeded this altitude in zoom climbs but not in sustained flight.

When the SR-71 was retired in 1990, one example was flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42
in Palmdale, California, to go on exhibit at what is now the Smithsonian Institution's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
(an annex of the National Air & Space Museum) in Chantilly, Virginia. On 6 March 1990, Lt. Col. Ed Yeilding and
 Lt. Col. J. T. Vida piloted the Blackbird, setting a coast-to-coast aircraft speed record: 67 minutes 54 seconds,
at an average speed 2,125 mph (3,419 km/h). Three additional records were set within segments of the flight,
including an average speed of 2,190 mph (3,524 km/h) measured between the radar gates set up in St. Louis and
Cincinnati. These four speed records were accepted by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA), the recognized
body for aviation records in the United States. An enthusiast site devoted to the Blackbird lists a record time of
64 minutes 20 seconds between Los Angeles and Washington DC for that 6 March 1990 flight.

The SR-71 also holds the record for flying from New York to London in 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds, set
on 1 September 1974. This equates to an average velocity of about Mach 2.68, including deceleration for in-flight
refueling. Peak speeds during this flight were probably closer to the declassified top speed of Mach 3.2+.
(For comparison, the best commercial Concorde flight time was 2 hours 52 minutes, and the Boeing 747
averages 6 hours 15 minutes.)

 

 


 

USAF Command Aircraft

USAF  CV-137A - Stratoliner - VIP Transport - 1954-1965

 

USAF C-21 Learjet 35/36 - 1973 - 738 Built

 

USAF  E-3 - Sentry - Airborne Warning and Control System - 1977 - 68 Built

USAF  E-8 - Joint STARS - Airborne Battle Management - 1991 - 17 Built

 

USAF - C-40B VIP Transport

 

USAF  CV-137C - The Spirit of 76 - Air Force 1 - #26000/27000 - 1972 - 2 Built 

 

USAF  VC-25 - Air Force 1 - #28000/#29000  - 1990 - 2 Built 

 

 


USAF Training Aircraft

 

USAF  T-6 Texan - 1935 - 15,495 Built- In service till 1990's !

 

USAF - T-41 Mescalero - 1964 - 224 Built

 

USAF  T-37  Tweet - 1957 - 1,269 Built- In service Still Today

USAF  T-38 - Talons  - 1961 - 1,187 Built  - 1961-1972

 

USAF  T-6A Texan II - 2000 - 435 Built

USAF  T-43  -  1973 - 19 Built

 


USAF  Observation  Aircraft

 

USAF  0-1 -  Bird Dog - 1950  - 3,431 Built

USAF  0-2 -  Skymaster - 1967  - 532 Built

Preserved O-2 Skymaster in New Jersey - 2008

 

USAF  0-10 -  Bronco - 1968  - 158 Built - Over Vietnam


 

USAF Remote Control Observation and Attack Aircraft

 

USAF  MQ-1  -  Predator - 1995 - 195 Built

 

USAF  MQ-9  -  Reaper - 2001 - 28 Built - Taxing for Takeoff in Afghanistan

 

USAF  MQ-9  -  Reaper - In Flight


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2.  AirBus Final Engine Check - 360 kb .pps file

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