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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 - Raptors- 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