US Air Force Museum Photos

The National Museum of the United States Air Force, near Dayton, OH, has one of the top three airplane collections in the USA including most of the planes used as Presidential "Air Force Ones" or historical equivalents. Aircraft in the collection go right back to the dawn of aviation and includes examples used by other nations. The Air Force still assumes people know how to read & posts very informative displays.

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MIG 23/27 Flogger in front of US Air Force Museum building.	A-10 Thunderbolt II with a painted face at US Air Force Museum.	Northrop "Raider" cargo trimotor aircraft at US Air Force Museum.	Fairchild C-82 Packet troop carrier at US Air Force Museum.

Row of prop planes at US Air Force Museum.	Lockheed Constellation radar aircraft at US Air Force Museum.	Nose of Lockheed Constellation radar aircraft at US Air Force Museum.	Lockheed Hercules transport at US Air Force Museum.

B-1A Lancer strategic bomber at US Air Force Museum.	Mace & Matador surface to surface missiles & vertical Boeing CIM10A Bomarc at US Air Force Museum.	Peacekeeper Rail Garrison boxcar used to keep US missiles in constant motion so as to make them less vulnerable to an offensive attack at US Air Force Museum.	Spad XVI French reconnaissance biplane at US Air Force Museum.

Fokker Triplane at US Air Force Museum.	Italian Caproni CA36 Bomber at US Air Force Museum.	Martin B-10 at US Air Force Museum.	Curtis P-36A Hawk from WW II at US Air Force Museum.

Hawker Hurricane British WW II fighter at US Air Force Museum.	Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (1935-45) at US Air Force Museum.	Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Bockscar which dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki at US Air Force Museum.	German Junker JU-88D-1 Baksheesh flown by a disaffected Romanian pilot to Cyprus in July 1943 at US Air Force Museum.

AC-130A Specter gunship Azrael meaning Angel of Death used in First Gulf War at US Air Force Museum.	Messerschmitt Me262 Schwalbe (swallow) the first operational turbojet in WW II at US Air Force Museum.	Douglas C-54 Sacred Cow (1944) built for President Roosevelt & used for his trip to Yalta & later by Truman at US Air Force Museum.	Douglas VC-118, President Truman's plane Independence at US Air Force Museum.

Lockheed VC-121E Constellation, President Eisenhower's plane Columbine III at US Air Force Museum.	Lockheed VC-140B Jet Star used by Nixon, Ford, Carter & Regan at US Air Force Museum.	Boeing 707 Air Force 1 used by Kennedy through Clinton & which was in Dallas in November 1963 where Johnson was sworn in as President at US Air Force Museum.