Preserved US Military Aircraft
This is Ben's description of the list from his newsgroup post.
Here is my list of preserved military aircraft. The entire list
is some 2,800 aircraft long.
The criteria for inclusion in the list were :
1. the aircraft has or should have a US military serial;
2. the aircraft ended its service life with the US military.
Consequently, the list excludes for example French F100's,
Dutch F84F's etc. Also excluded are aircraft which are
either instructional airframes or have civil regs. or are
stored (AMARC!!).
The list is sorted alphabetically by type, by US serial. The columns
are generic type, US serial (zeroes added where needed for
database sorting purposes), date last seen/reported and
location.
Where the US serial has an asterisk *, the aircraft served with
a foreign air force/navy before it came back to US service.
Although I am painfully aware that there are many designations
for, say, a T6 and while I know that some aircraft in USAF and
USN service have different designations, I just had to use generic
types in order to a) protect myself against sleepless nights,
b) avoid discussion and c) keep the lists tidy and accessible.
Also, I had to be ruthless in naming locations. Some air bases
have aircraft preserved in a museum and at the gate and around
the corner from building 337-5 etc. For the purpose of this list, a
location is a location, without any specifics. OK?
Then about completeness and correctness:
Although my friends and/or myself have actually seen many of the
aircraft, and although I have done my best to compile a list as
useful as possible, errors are human! Please send me any additions,
corrections and even questions, so that I can improve the list.
Apart from friends (thanks!) I have used snippets from such extremely
useful magazines like Scramble (Dutch) and British Aviation Review.
Ben Marselis
Flying from Eelde Airport
Surfing From Rolde, Holland
Mail additions, changes and corrections to Ben Marselis
benmarse@noord.bart.nl
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