I believe that that F-15 wears a Flanker style camoflauge scheme with a medium gray radome and two tone light blue gray camouflage. Just a bit over from this Eagle is one in a two tone desert scheme, also an aggressor.
Looks like it's pale gray with quite a forest of antennas coming off of it. Tip tanks appear black, all of which point to this being one of the Beech RC-12 Guardrail ELINT/COMINT aircraft.
Looks like a NASA bird with a sunshield erected in the cockpit (an obvious necessity in El Paso! I've seen NASA's T-38s at KELP on a pretty regular basis over the years.
I'd heard that there is a service tunnel that ran underneath the runway that now is used by AMR headquarters employees to exercise and take walks during lunch breaks.
I showed my friend this map and he told me that it's very likely that he's the one sitting in the cockpit of the Jet Provost in that shot as they were testing its engines. There is a ground power unit hooked up to the jet that you can see in that shot that they used to test the systems after they'd restored it.
The second plane is a Jet Provost. A friend of mine is part of the group of pilots that restored/owns those two aircraft and they have a MiG-15 and a Jet Provost and are looking at getting other jet warbirds as well. I'm quite certain of this as I've seen pics of both aircraft he took.
I can't quite make out the tail markings, but there is an air defense detachment at March ARB in Riverside that's usually the jurisdiction of the Air National Guard's F-16 units. Traditionally it's been the 144th Fighter Wing from Fresno who staffed the March ARB detachment, but these don't look like the tails of the 144th FW and might be another unit rotated in for alert duties.
That is a 757-300 of ATA (American Trans Air)- based out of Indianapolis, ATA flies scheduled/charter flights and their charter flights carry mostly military personnel back home on leave. They typically will use a 757-200/300 or one of their Lockheed Tristars on military trooping charters.
It's nickname when Bergstrom was still an active base was "Roundagon". I'd heard that when it was being refurbished into a hotel, they had to evict a big bat colony along with their large load of bat guano!
That's quite a distance from the airport property, I wonder how they got them out there without disassembling them? FWIW, those are MD-11s in the colors of German charter airline LTU.
During the early 1990s you could see a lot of stored Pan Am aircraft at KAMA right after they ceased operations.
That's not the F-35 or the F-15, I believe it's the JAST (Joint Advanced Strike Technology) ground test article that was used to develop vertical take off lift fan technologies that ultimately ended up in the Joint Strike Fighter/F-35. It never was meant to fly, the test article was suspended from a test gantry to study engine behavior in vertical flight.
Good find, that appears to be the new Sino-Swearingen SJ30 business jet which I believe is being built right there at San Antonio- Swearingen is long associated with KSAT, having built Merlins and Metroliners there for years.
There's also a B-25 Mitchell, a Convair 340/C-131, and three Convair 440s next to those DC-3s. This is a lot more than there used to be compared to the last time I was at KGLE which was about 4 years ago when this corner of the field only held two CV440s.
Could just be open storage. Those are Iberia Airlines A300s and they're pretty long in the tooth and close to retirement if they haven't already been put out to pasture. It's not unusual to use an little used section of taxiway for that purpose.
As of January of this year, Founders' Plaza is now closed as that area will be part of the new perimeter taxiway system at DFW. There is supposed to be a new viewing park on the northwest side near the UPS ramps just off Texan Trail, but I don't think any ground has been broken there yet.
This is the former Dodge City Army Air Field built in 1943 to train USAAF medium bomber crews (B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Marauder). Free French Air Force crews were also trained there. The base was closed sometime in the late 1940s and was listed as abandoned on section charts by the early 60s.
Interesting find, Grayson County Airport near Sherman, TX, is the former Perrin AFB where they trained Air Defense Command interceptor crews in the 1950s and 1960s (F-86Ds, then F-102As). For years there was an active scrapping business there which has tailed off in the last several years.
The DC-9 and DC-8 prototypes I believe were scrapped at Grayson as well.
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time employee of the airport who worked in an operations capacity. I was hoping perhaps someone else had heard of this as well.
There are two very prominent fairings on each side of the aft fuselage which should be clearly visible at the resolution of the GM photo.
During the early 1990s you could see a lot of stored Pan Am aircraft at KAMA right after they ceased operations.
Link: http://www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/
The DC-9 and DC-8 prototypes I believe were scrapped at Grayson as well.
Photo: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0381197/M/